BOOKS - REVIEW
BOOKS - REVIEW SENSE OF AN ENDING Julian Barnes If there is a definitive Barnes, this is the one. This 2011 Man Booker prize winner gathers in all pages almost all the Barnes's pets themes- an eroded sense of seriousness in the English psyche, class, ageing, mortality, tricky remembrance. The title is a reference to literary critic Frank Kermode's book of the same name , where he explains how writers bring in plot twists to make reader readjust there sense of an ending. Expectedly, Barnes does the same , showing how we restructure memories in the way we want things to happen , while reality might have been otherwise. A novel of ideas, glittering with intelligent insights. purchase links :--- https://amzn.to/2MIvrya THE SELLOUT Paul Beatty This booker winner means to offend, and ho. The satire is scathing, and it spares none. Set in LA, the novel is narrated by Banbon , who observes and describes his black community with a zen detachment. In this...