Summary
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (Hamish Hamilton, 16.99)
WERE Waterstone's to have a "mid-life crisis" section, it would be depressingly wellstocked with contemporary male novelists regretting their lost Sixties and Seventies youth. It would also seem the obvious place to stick Hari Kunzru's fourth novel. A brief outline reveals the familiar tropes: a bourgeois hubby has a crise de coeur on the eve of his 50th birthday, runs out on his wife and sets off on an impetuous journey to regain touch with the ideals he has exchanged for organic beauty products and feelings of numb self- pity.See the full content of this document
Extract
Radical Spirits On the Road to Nowhere
You might expect the ensuing novel to be full of millennial cynicism, nostalgia for the Rolling Stones and perhaps a bit of perving over minors.
Kunzru, thankful...See the full content of this document
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