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Well, it definitely wasn't my type of book... The book tells story of Waldo, a famous film director who is now old and very sick... He is trying to outsmart Eddie who comes into his life and seduces Zee, the much younger wife of Waldo. I can only give it one ⭐

If the author didn‘t have such a command of language , this could easily have become B movie type of book. Told from 1st person, we meet Waldo, a celebrated filmmaker at the end of his life bound to a wheelchair. Waldo starts to suspect his younger by 20 years wife, Zee is having an affair with an acquaintance of theirs, Eddie. Ensue life chess match. Waldo was entertaining to me in a very crass way, one I‘m almost embarrassed to admit to. Pick!

This main character will shock you with his depravity, but then he also has moments of warm and sincere introspection that make for a nice pace. The top quote is probably one of the nicer ones I could find without body parts or sex. There are a lot of those.

Tl:dr: old man is still creepy at the end of his life.

Good: clean, well-constructed language.
Bad: misogyny and creepy characters.

One of my favorite authors of youth creates a well-written book about creepy/ empty people. But it does match my bookshelves

The Guardian said it best: "The tormented revenge fantasies of a cuckolded film-maker." So if that's your thing, well, this is the book for you. eARC from publisher. Book out January 2.

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This is a hard book to rate, but I'll go with a pick. It's always a pleasure to read Kureishi, and this is shot through with vivid descriptions and black humour on every page. A bawdy, obnoxious, clever novella about a loathsome character, Waldo, a celebrated filmmaker now confined to his home because of illness and advancing age. A 1st person account of a descent into paranoia and sexual jealousy. It's a great character study, but not much more.

Talk about an opening line