| Rating: | ★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Literature & Fiction |
| Author: | Mark Haddon |
Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”, you may be disappointed.
Probably that’s where the problem starts, preconceived notions and high expectation, thus find that the story a bit boring, nothing new, the usual mid-life crisis stuff, dealing with aging and retirement, marriage and relationship difficulties.
The characters are very ordinary, perhaps like you and me, or someone familiar to us all.
George, fifty-seven and comfortably retired, discovers a lesion on his hip and thinks he has cancer and gradually starts to have a breakdown. The rest of the family is too busy to notice.
Jean (George’s wife) is having an affair with David, an ex-colleague of George.
Katie (George’s daughter), a divorced mother of young Jacob and is engaged to Ray, whom she may not love but who treats her and Jacob well.
Jamie (George’s gay son), who is having problems with his boyfriend Tony.
There are couple of scenes which are quite funny and make you laugh out loud, but the last portion of the book sounds a bit heavy, uplifting and unrealistic.
Though this book is not bad, however, I still prefer to Mark’s previous prizing winning novel.
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