The Only Story
Large Type - 2018 Large Print Fiction / Barnes, Julian 1 On Shelf No requests on this item
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Call Number: Large Print Fiction / Barnes, Julian
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Regular print version previously published by: Alfred A. Knopf.
"One summer in the sixties, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and joins the tennis club at his mother's urging. He's partnered with Mrs. Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight. They bond immediately and soon become lovers. Decades later, with Susan now dead, Paul looks back on their story"-- Provided by publisher.
One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. In the mixed-doubles tournament he's partnered with Susan Mcleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, ironic, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. They soon, inevitably, are lovers. They set up house in London to escape his parents and the abusive Mr. Mcleod. Decades later, with Susan now dead, Paul looks back at how they fell in love, how he freed her from a sterile marriage, and how-- gradually, relentlessly -- everything fell apart.
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PUBLISHED
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 303 p.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781683248378
1683248376
SUBJECTS
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
May-December romances -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Abused women -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Psychological fiction.