{"product_id":"the-only-story-paperback","title":"The Only Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulian Barnes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e comes \"a brilliant, rueful look at love--what we do for it, how we experience it and what makes it die\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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. There he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul immediate. And soon, inevitably, they are lovers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBasking in the glow of one another, they set up house together in London. Decades later, Paul looks back at how they fell in love and how--gradually, relentlessly--everything fell apart. As he turns over his only story in his mind, examining it from different vantage points, he finds himself confronted with the contradictions and slips of his own memory--and the ways in which our narratives and our lives shape one another. Poignant, vivid and profound, \u003ci\u003eThe Only Story\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing novel of memory, devotion, and how first love fixes a life forever.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulian Barnes is the author of twenty-two previous books, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Noise of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Man Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e, and has also received the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the David Cohen Prize for Literature, and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the French Prix Medicis and Prix Femina; the Austrian State Prize for European Literature; and in 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'Honneur by the French government. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228323463417,"sku":"9780525563068","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MGc5QVhPS2p6WlIrVnM2SjdkYnZjZz09.webp?v=1768290469","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-only-story-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}