Intimacy: A Novel
Ratings3
Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
Description: 118 p. ; 20 cm.
Abstract:
An unmarried couple's separation is complicated by children. The father is a TV scriptwriter who has been unfaithful, the mother is in publishing and the setting is London. As he narrates their story, the man describes his mixed feelings, torn between the prospect of freedom and the loss of his sons.
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Argh.
I hated this story. Self-indulgent, self-pitying drivel about a man who is preparing to leave his hard working, patient, and frankly over-tolerant wife, the mother of his two children, because he wants to go out and have sex with younger, fitter, ‘more interesting' women.
Conversely, I enjoyed Kureishi's writing style, and there were a couple of sentences that stood out as really beautiful, though they were floating in a pile of shite so they were bound to stand out.
Part of me wonders if the point of this book was to hate it, in which case it's done its job very well and deserves five stars.
Not convinced.
Two stars, for the writing.
