How do you tell a love story in three parts over time from three perspectives?

Julian Barnes will be here to talk about his new novel, The Only Story.

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Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Booker View.

I'm Pamela Palm.

Julian Barnes joins us now.

His latest book is called The Only Story.

Julian, thanks so much for being here.

My pleasure.

I actually want to start with the book that you wrote right before this, because this

is very much a departure and how you got from that book to this one and were you eager

to get back to fiction.

Well the last book was a novel, but it was a nonfiction novel and this is absolutely

a fiction novel.

I think that my book is often very, quite sharply, one from the last.

That's how I've always operated.

This, if it ties to any other book, perhaps ties to the sense of ending, which was the

book two novels ago, in that it's about a relationship between a young man and a

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