Life after life book review guardian3/15/2024 It is, however, all very entertaining.īloomsbury 288pp £18.99 The Week Bookshop £14.99 The Week Bookshop The leap forward in time is merely a device allowing Ruggero to reminisce about his affair 30 years earlier with the now-forgotten writer Edmund White, then old and infirm: a “fat, famous slug”, he calls him. Constance, in her early 30s, is an “African-American orphan”, while Ruggero, her husband, is an elderly bisexual Sicilian aristocrat who is “legendarily well-connected (not to mention well hung)”.Īs you’d expect, this novel is “elegantly written”, and contains many “arresting images”, said Peter Parker in The Spectator – but it’s fairly “preposterous”. In the year 2050, a married couple in a remote Swiss chalet decide to entertain each other by recounting their “previous sexual careers”. ‘A novel to end all novels’: James Joyce’s Ulysses turns 100.Love Marriage by Monica Ali: a book that ‘dares to be deliberately funny’.
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