The Lemon Table

In this widely acclaimed collection of short stories, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending addresses the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old.

"A master at work.... Sweet, sour, bitter, wistful, ruminative, comic, elegiac ... A joy to read." -San Francisco Chronicle

The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives-some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances...