'Aristotle said, "After coition, all animals are sad." Well I'm
not.' So tipsy, shambolic, sick Wil Daniel begins to tell our
narrator, Dean, a tale that may be a ghost story or a romance, a
farce or a tragedy. Can Clive regain the triumphs he achieved at
the age of nine? Will Jeff stop his swimming trunks from
dissolving? Meanwhile we get glimpses of Dean's own half-lived
life. These threads develop into a dark, off-beat, and merciless
examination of maleness and mortality. This superbly written novel
is a tour-de- force of revelation of character through dialogue, a
meditation on human suffering which is no less acute for being
routine and almost invisible to all but the sufferers, some of whom
may not survive. Christopher Meredith is author of the
award-winning Shifts and also publishes poetry and translations.
The Book of Idiots is his fourth novel.
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