Middle age, disillusionment, decay, renewal, closure I had a strange experience when I initially started to read this book. I knew it was the sequel to The Rotters’ Club – especially after I had read the author’s note – and that it only made sense to read it if I had read that first book. The t...
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this, given that my only previous experience with this author came from ‘Like a Fiery Elephant’, his excellent (and quite idiosyncratic) biography of B. S. Johnson. The only suggestion I’d gleaned was that here was a writer wedded to a kind of gentle experimental...