The Sense of an Ending
内容简介
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the mutable past. Laced with trademark precision, dexterity and insight, it is the work of one of the world's most distinguished writers.
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作者简介
Julian Barnes is the author of ten novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters and Arthur & George; two books of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table; and also three collections of journalism, Letters from London, Something to Declare, and The Pedant in the Kitchen.
His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis (for Flaubert's Parrot) and the Prix Femina (for Talking it Over). In 1993 he was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the FVS Foundation of Hamburg. He lives in London.
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读书文摘
人生已然开始，益处已然获得，损毁已然造成。 无言之所，唯余沉默。——维特根斯坦
你知道我怕什么吗？年事已高住进医院，听着陌生的护士们叫着我的大名，安东尼，或是更糟糕，叫我的小名，托尼。托尼，让我把这个扎到你胳膊里去。托尼，再喝两口稀粥。托尼，你大便了吗？
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