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The Only Story

The Only Story

Barnes, Julian

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0525563067
ISBN13: 9780525563068
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Mar 5 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes a brilliant, rueful look at love--what we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die (People).

One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul immediate. And soon, inevitably, they are lovers.

Basking in the glow of one another, they set up house together in London. Decades later, Paul looks back at how they fell in love and how--gradually, relentlessly--everything fell apart. As he turns over his only story in his mind, examining it from different vantage points, he finds himself confronted with the contradictions and slips of his own memory--and the ways in which our narratives and our lives shape one another. Poignant, vivid and profound, The Only Story is a searing novel of memory, devotion, and how first love fixes a life forever.

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