The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes · 2011
Literary Fiction · ranked #123 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2011
Tony Webster remembers his school friendship with the brilliant Adrian Finn and the relationship they both had with a girl named Veronica — and discovers decades later that his memory of these events is dangerously self-serving. Barnes's Man Booker-winning novella is a study in the gap between how we remember our lives and what we actually did.
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