The Sense of an Ending is a short, sharp novel about a man who tells his own story and then comes to doubt it. Written by Julian Barnes, it's a book in two halves (construction; deconstruction) as ageing Tony Webster is forced to revise his account in the light of complicating new evidence and unquiet old memories. "How often do we tell our own life story?" Tony wonders. "How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts?" Our history, he concludes, is merely the story we tell. Others spin their own versions and the truth is elusive.
Julian Barnes: 'I told the film-makers to throw my book against a wall' | Film | The Guardian
3 April 2017
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