Title: How is it that Yale + NYC = yawn?
Product review: I read the pre-publication comparisons to Fitzgerald and McInerney and could barely wait to get my hands on "The Tourists", but what a dissappointment! The characters aren't so much unsympathetic as unrealized; I didn't care about them, but perhaps that was because none of them seemed at all real. There is also no effective sense of the rich settings of the novel (Yale and New York City); reading this book is like going to New York on business and never getting a moment outside the airport, a taxi and a conference room. Sad, because the possibilities are so great! And the unnamed narrators long, unrequited longing for the ex-Yalie, ex-model, faux-designer Samona is inexplicable with what the writer chooses to reveal about her, and more appropriate to a pre-teen setting than to a bunch of New Yorkers pushing hard at 30. Oy, how I wish I'd gotten this one from the library!
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