What a frustrating mess of a novel!As it meandered through generations of awkward misunderstandings and flirtations, there's no character to serve as an anchor from jump to jump and no narrative arc. The closest I can get to gleaning the point of Hollinghurst's experiment is a vague notion that he i...
I normally write my own book reviews, but this one review was so spot on, and it reflected my own thoughts so closely, that I'm including a link to it instead:http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/267985179