Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2011
Julian Barnes, “The Sense of an Ending.”
New York: Knopf. 163pp. $23.95.
By Martin Rubin
When Evelyn Waugh sent the manuscript of his magnum opus “Brideshead Revisited” to his friend and fellow novelist Nancy Mitford, her response was enthusiastic, except for wishing that his protagonist was less dim and had a little more glamor. But, of course, Waugh was making a conscious artistic decision and Julian Barnes has made a similar choice in his brief novel, which has just won England’s Man Booker Prize. . . .
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