The Only Story
Julian Barnes
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
3.58
· 26 ratings · 272 pages · Published: 01 Feb 2018
First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.
As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.
Tender and profound, The Only Story is an achingly beautiful novel by one of fiction’s greatest mappers of the human heart.
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