Ebook {Epub PDF} The Only Story by Julian Barnes

 · It’s a cliché to say the love is inexplicable, but the strength of The Only Story is Barnes’s willingness to explore the nature of that inexplicability, how Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ‘The Only Story’ () by Julian Barnes tells the story of one man – Paul and the one love, the only story, the single relationship that defines him, that determines his path in life. There are echoes here of Barnes’ brilliant ‘Sense of an Ending’ – to which ‘Only Story’ is most definitely a worthy successor, but the two are both very different books, different stories to be told/5(K).  · The Only Story by Julian Barnes review – an exquisite look at love. Barnes deftly explores time and memory in his latest novel, about an older Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.

Julian Barnes's latest novel sets out its agenda from its very first paragraph: 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. And then, soon after we are told: Most of us have only one story to tell. Most of us have only one story to tell only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. 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. The Only Story by Julian Barnes. Readers who were a little disappointed by Barnes's last political fiction The Noise of Time will be glad to know that he is back in top form with The Only Story, a novel that has all the zesty elegance of great vintage bltadwin.ru plot is minimal this time: nineteen-year-old Paul falls in love with Susan, a woman almost thirty years his senior.

A novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. The Only Story is a novel by British author Julian Barnes. Set in Surrey, England, the novel begins in the early s, when nineteen-year-old student Paul Roberts meets Susan Macleod, the forty-eight-year-old wife of a violent alcoholic. The two begin a passionate love affair, which ends when Susan develops an alcohol dependency of her own and declines into dementia. "Julian Barnes’s Latest Novel, The Only Story, Is a Tale of Absolute Devastation," The New Statesman. 27 Jan. - Lara Feigel. " For Julian Barnes, the only story is a love story — and it’s inevitably sad," The Spectator.