Brown Bag Book Discussion - August

The Brown Bag Book Discussion will meet at the Middlebury Public Library on Wednesday, August 7th at 1:00 pm to discuss The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Please call the library at 203-758-2634 for more information.

Book Description:

“This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about – until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre”.