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Title: Neglected genius writes like a dream.
Review: 'Art is a way of responding to a world we are basically dissatisfied with.'So says the narrator of Theroux's third and final novel: An Adultery. It would seem to be the author's own view also,as anyone who has read Darconville's Cat will testify; nobody is spared the cruel, seemingly pathological tirades of this writer, with the exception, maybe, of vacant young women who sow beanbags and don't grumble. But, I love the style Theroux brings to his work - the wit and the lucidity - so I can forgive him his harshness, most of the time. An Adultery is a brilliantly involving novel, with so many observations and memorable lines that I can't begin to summarise it properly.But,if you come across this book, you should definitely read it.
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