The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Extremely disappointing. Maybe there's some comfort in the thought that a Man Booker prize winner can write terribly? Polemical, not fully thought out in terms of plot. No editing evident. Fumbling attempt to write female characters that just end up being unreal cold phantasms of an out-of-touch male mind that can't reach beyond its cishet male gaze. It's amazing how transparently male writers reveal all their complexes around women in their writing of female characters. I really tried to find something I liked about it & all I could think of was that the hardback cover (underneath the weird male gazey dustcover) is a close up of a green parrot's wings. So yeah.