Up-and-coming playwright and screenwriter Waterman makes a wobbly
transition to the novel with this unsubtle tale of a bored English
housewife who worships Marty Moreno, a fading Californian crooner.
While she makes him her fantasy lover, the real article is living
out a drug-fuelled decline in Los Angeles alongside his
long-suffering minder. Waterman mainly plays the story for laughs,
pepping up the narrative with a whole range of literary gimmicks,
from spoof screenplay extracts to faux fan mail. However, his
cartoon characters are much too flimsy to support the novel's
clumsy forays into themes such as child abuse, murder and gay rape.
(Kirkus UK)
"Martylove" is a fast-moving, fast-talking, twentieth century
tragi-comedy that follows the lives of three outrageous characters
whose futures become inescapably and irredeemably entwined. Jane
Miller, workaday English housewife, lives only for her hero--Marty
Moreno, the self-styled King of Smooch--who meanwhile crashes and
burns towards an ignoble end in the Los Angeles fast-lane, a fate
which only his minder, the ever-faithful Lance, can prevent. Bound
together in an unholy triangle of secrets this is their story.
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