Explorations Read-Aloud: “The Sense of an Ending” by Julian Barnes

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.

For September 5, Coté will read aloud from Julian Barnes’ novel The Sense of an Ending.

A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.

Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own.

But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Click the links to find the library’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Page.