Julian Barnes' The Sense of An Ending is a novel about a middle-aged man coming to terms with how a cruel letter he wrote as a young man precipitated the suicide of a close friend. The book won the 2011 Man Booker Prize and was an international bestseller. It also received widespread praise from publications like The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, and more.
Retired arts administrator Tony Webster looks back to the 1960s when he was an apathetic but intelligent teenager. He befriends Adrian Finn, impressed by the new student's philosophically complex answers to teachers' questions. Tony doesn't date seriously until he meets Veronica Ford while...
