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Informationen zum Autor Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending , which won the 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story . He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and four works of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing to Be Frightened Of . He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Légion d'Honneur in 2017. Klappentext 'A dexterously crafted narrative...quivering not just with tension but with psychological! emotional and moral reverberation...overlaid with witty portrayal of the contemporary London scene and spot-on period evocation in harkings back to the class and sexual mores of the early 1960s... Uncovering! link by link! an appalling chain reaction of briefly wished-for revenge! almost accidental damage! and remorse that agonisingly bites after most of a lifetime! it's a harsh tale rich in humane resonances' Sunday Times 'Like Henry James's The Turn of the Screw ! which it resembles...its effect is disturbing - all the more so for being written with Barnes's habitual lucidity. His reputation will surely be enhanced by this book. Do not be misled by its brevity. Its mystery is as deeply embedded as the most archaic of memories' Anita Brookner! Daily Telegraph 'Without overstating his case in the slightest! Barnes's story is a meditation on the unreliability and falsity of memory; on not getting it the first time round - and possibly not even the second! either. Barnes's revelation is richly ambiguous... It subverts not only the conventions of the where-are-the-snows-of-yesteryear fiction...but also the redeemed-lonely-old-man novel...and also the very notion that towards the end of our lives we see things more clearly' Evening Standard Zusammenfassung I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school....
