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Knopf
October 2011
On Sale: October 1, 2011
Featuring: Adrian Finn; Tony Webster
176 pages
ISBN: 0307957128
EAN: 9780307957122
Hardcover
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The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past,
Julian Barnes's new novel is laced with his trademark
precision, dexterity and insight. It is the work of one of
the world's most distinguished writers. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school.
Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated the girl drought
of gawky adolescence together, trading in affectations,
in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more
serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but
they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian's life took
a turn into tragedy, and all of them, especially Tony, moved
on and did their best to forget. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a marriage,
a calm divorce. He gets along nicely, he thinks, with his
one child, a daughter, and even with his ex-wife. 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 unexpected bequest conveyed by
that letter leads Tony on a dogged search through a past
suddenly turned murky. And how do you carry on, contentedly,
when events conspire to upset all your vaunted truths?
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