TY - BOOK AB - This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world. AU - Barnes, Julian. CN - PR6052.A6657 CN - PR6052.A6657 CY - New York : DA - 2011. ID - 427413 KW - Middle-aged men KW - Life change events KW - Male friendship N1 - "Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2011"--T.p. verso. N2 - This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world. PB - Alfred A. Knopf, PP - New York : PY - 2011. SN - 9780307957122 SN - 0307957128 T1 - The sense of an ending / TI - The sense of an ending / ER -