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From the author of London Fields and Time's Arrow comes the story of Richard Tull, a novelist whose literary criticism is the only work to actually...more
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A bleak look into the life of someone who has no hope of ever attaining his dreams. Amis ushers us through a landscape of depravity and sadness. One is easily fooled into thinking that the light at the end of the tunnel is a happy ending when really it's nothing more than the protagonists life exploding once again.
As gloom and doom as a novel about writer´s envy could ever get.
Sadly read the Spanish translation, so, I felt like I missed a lot of the prose´s nuances and the interesting cultural references.
Richard Tull makes a quite unforgettable character.
Not exactly a pleasurable read, but an extremely interesting one.
While the prose almost went too far into pretentious obtuse level for me, what kept me reading was Tull's base jealousy for Barry and how they both acted like five year olds. (Moral of the story - all lit people are five year olds who use big words?)
Maybe it's just my LIS training screwing with my head, but I thought Amis kept trying to make some commentary about lit/info culture in the...more
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