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The Only Story: A Novel (Vintage International),Used
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From The Bestselling, Booker Prizewinning Author Of The Sense Of An Ending Comes A Brilliant, Rueful Look At Lovewhat We Do For It, How We Experience It And What Makes It Die (People).One Summer In The Sixties, In A Staid Suburb South Of London, Nineteenyearold Paul Comes Home From University And Is Urged By His Mother To Join The Tennis Club. There Hes Partnered With Susan Macleod, A Fine Player Whos Fortyeight, 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.Basking 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 Howgradually, Relentlesslyeverything 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 Memoryand The Ways In Which Our Narratives And Our Lives Shape One Another. Poignant, Vivid And Profound, The Only Story Is A Searing Novel Of Memory, Devotion, And How First Love Fixes A Life Forever.
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