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Many involved in crypto saw SandBankman Freed as a breath of fresh air from the usual

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The sense of an ending, that haunting tale, of a man looking back on a botch movement

of youth.

God, just one botch movement.

I had too many to choose from.

The London Review of Books captured his emotion-rich writing perfectly when it said he specializes

in Englishness, the way some doctors specialize in broken bones or damaged nerves.

And his new book, The Only Story, which has just come out, is in some ways a first cousin

to the sense of an ending.

A 19-year-old student has an affair with a married 40-something he meets at a tennis club

in the London suburbs and the novel follows the relationship through the decades and the

memories and lives it shapes, driven by the quote, panic and pandemonium waiting to break

out inside of all of us.

It's an exquisite, warm, wise human telling that forces a reader to confront the plumbing

of life, love, memory, and in doing so, it's the best novel.

It really is.

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