Grimus
Salman Rushdie
Rushdie's first novel, which starts very promisingly with lots of sparkling word-play, inventiveness and mystery. The novel deals with a group of people who are given the option of immortality, and is the story of a quest (perhaps for death) by one of the immortals. The book continues well enough until the first stage of the quest is attained, and then it's as if Rushdie can't work out what to do with his characters. The second half of the book is dull, a grind, hardly worth bothering with except Seán doesn't like giving up without knowing what happens in the end.
Not recommended.
Seán 6/12/98
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