The Only Story
$30.73
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2019
Summary
A profoundly moving story of first love and memory from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
“Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.”
First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784708313 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784708313 |
| Author: | Julian Barnes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
A novelist at the height of his powers … Quietly devastating .
A novelist at the height of his powers … Quietly devastating. – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst * The Times *Exquisite. – Kate Clanchy * Guardian *Emotionally acute, profoundly beautiful, as droll as it is deep… this has to be one of the smartest novels that 2018 has to offer. – Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *A gentle, bleak, and brilliant novel. – Jon Day * Financial Times *Immensely powerful. – Alex Clark * New Statesman *This intense, taut, sad and often beautiful tale may well be Barnes’ best novel for years. – Lara Feigel * Spectator *A tender and heartbreaking novel. – Alex Preston * Observer *As quiet and aching and intimate as a James Blake ballad. – Rupert GooldA sensitive look at what makes lovers tick. – Robbie Millen * The Times *A vivid dramatization of the narcissism of obsessive love. * Economist *
About The Author
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of fourteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Booker Prize, 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 five works of non-fiction, including Nothing to Be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for lifetime contribution to literature in 2011, and the Legion d’honneur in 2017.
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