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005			20190215114522.0
008			171017t20182018nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017047844
020			_a9780525521211 _qhardcover
020			_a0525521216 _qhardcover
037			_bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 _nSAN 201-3975
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dSSH _dJQR _dCZA _dQX9 _dOBE _dBUR _dTXN _dOCLCO _dILC _dYDX
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100	1		_aBarnes, Julian, _eauthor. _973082
245	1	4	_aThe only story /
250			_aFirst United States edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018.
264		4	_c�2018
300			_a253 pages ; _c20 cm
500			_a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
520			_a"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author ..., a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. 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 Macleod, 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. Macleod. Decades later, with Susan now dead, Paul looks back at how they fell in love, how he freed Susan from a sterile marriage, and how--gradually, relentlessly--everything fell apart, as he found himself struggling to understand the intricacy and depth of the human heart. It's a piercing account of helpless devotion, and of how memory can confound us and fail us and surprise us (sometimes all at once), of how, as Paul puts it, 'first love fixes a life forever.'"--Dust jacket.
650		0	_aMan-woman relationships _vFiction. _973083
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft _973084
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2gsafd _973085
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2fast _973084
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