The only story
(2019, original release: 2018)
By:
Barnes, Julian
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/BARNES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
©2018
©2018
EDITION
First Vintage International edition
DESCRIPTION
253 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780525563068, 0525563067 :, 9780525521211, 0525521216, 0525563067, 9780525563068, 0525563067, 9780525563068
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"A novel"--Cover
"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. She is also a warm companion, their bond immediate. And they soon, inevitably, are lovers. Clinging to each other as though their lives depend on it, they then set up house in London to escape his parents and the abusive Mr. Mcleod"--