For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Julian Barnes - fan,
a new, signed 1st UK edition hardcover copy of
Julian Barnes
The Only Story
Jonathan Cape, London / UK, 2018
"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 profound, The Only Story is an achingly beautiful novel by one of fiction’s greatest mappers of the human heart." (goodreads.com)
"Julian Patrick Barnes is a
contemporary English writer of postmodernism in literature. He has been
shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize for Flaubert's Parrot
(1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George (2005), and won
the prize for The Sense of an Ending (2011). He has written crime
fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. Following an education
at the City of London School and Merton College, Oxford, he worked as a
lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary. Subsequently, he worked
as a literary editor and film critic. He now writes full-time. His
brother, Jonathan Barnes, is a philosopher specialized in Ancient
Philosophy. He lived in London with his wife, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh, until her death on 20 October 2008." (goodreads.com)