Coming back to it fourteen years on I see no reason to change my original opinion. Most of all, it was simply a rattling good read. The book brought together many of the features that I’d most admired in his stage work: the humour of Noises Off, the addressing of serious issues to be found in Benefactors and the painstaking research that lay behind the brilliant Copenhagen. It was my initial encounter with Frayn as a novelist, but I’d known his work for the theatre long before that. As I said in my previous post, I first read this when it came out back in 1999 and loved it then. We’ll be discussing novels that are focused on works of art, starting with Michael Frayn’s Booker short-listed Headlong. Most of my reading at the moment is centred on the books for this year’s Summer School which begins on August 19th.
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