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Tony Burgess is a genius, I'm confident of that, and there are moments of brilliance in this novel just as in everything he writes. Unfortunately this time for me the language was the only compelling thing about the novel, and though it was still a good read simply for the moments of poetry and insight, I was still disappointed by the book as a whole.
While I wasn't a fan of his short stories, this novel actually wasn't too bad. I still found there were bits and pieces that didn't really make sense and the second half of the book just threw everything into a loop/upside down and the ending just made me go 'excuse me??'. Outside of that, it was a much more cohesive book to read instead of the jumble that was Bewdley.
In realtà, come tutti i libri che ho letto di Burgess fino ad ora, le cose sono molto più complesse e assurde di così.Assurde e apparentemente senza senso e senza motivazioni, ma perfettamente logiche nella lucidità della follia del momento.Non posso definirlo un libro che si lascia leggere, ma se ci si lascia andare allora la storia, mentre ci si è dentro, sembra avere senso.
My dad suffered from a particularly unpleasant side effect to his Lewy Body Dementia, something called Capgras Syndrome. It started with the delusion that my mum wasn’t just my mum, but a series of identical Shirleys each of whom fulfilled very different roles: there was the wife Shirley, the mum Shirley, the one who cooked, the one who cleaned, the one who drove and the one he didn’t like who would be bossy. Mum would go to the loo in the night and find him laying in the middle of the bed so up...
Sadly, Burgess seems to think that just talking about a small town is enough to carry a story. It definitely is not, particularly not a novel-length one.
Tony Burgess is one of my favorite authors. and this book, while not the best in the trilogy, is wonderful in its own right. Simultaneously grotesque and poetic, the reader ever knows what is coming next.
