The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending
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 the face of social convention.
As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.
Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction’s greatest mappers of the human heart.
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.
ISBN:
9781787330696
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-01-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
222x147x25mm
Weight:
0.4kg