The Only Story

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The Only Story concerns the pained recollections of an aging Englishman’s life-changing only love. Fifty years after he fell hard for a woman nearly 30 years his senior, Barnes’ narrator scavenges his memory and probes the scar tissue of his cauterized heart in a way that’s frequently painful to read.

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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 Britain’s greatest mappers of the human heart.

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Author

Julian Barnes

Condition

New

Language

English

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