DECEMBER BOOK
Our book for December is The Sense of an Ending (link), the Man Booker Prize winning novel by English author Julian Barnes. (A film based on the book was released in 2017.) We'll be returning to the spacious, heated patio of the Joey Shipyards location in North Vancouver (Joey). Join the gang this Tuesday evening (Dec.7) at the regular 7pm start time for some pre-holiday literary merriment. All carbon-based bipeds more than welcome.
This intense novel follows Tony Webster, a middle-aged man, as he contends with a past he never thought much about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony thought he left this all behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.
