Ghost MacIndoe (Paperback, ePub edition)

Alexander MacIndoe is an unremarkable man leading an unremarkable life; born during the Second World War he moves easily, ghost-like, through the century, 'a theatre of memories' gently wafted along in the slipstream of changing fashions, blending in discreetly with the trend of the moment. As a man who follows rather than leads, he nevertheless has a quiet independence, a physical beauty and an inner stillness that others find attractive and which makes them draw him into their circle. And he is an ideal witness of their lives and of events around them, as he recounts the making and breaking of their relationships, the births and deaths that touch all their lives. There is something compelling about this quiet book, whose action is largely in the mind of its central character, the impression of nostalgia emphasised by variations on the refrain, 'he would always remember'. It would be easy for frustration with Alexander's inability to engage with the world and seize the opportunities there for the taking, to alienate the reader, but somehow it doesn't. You want to read on, partly hoping he will take on some kind of epiphany but also knowing he will not: the pleasure is there not in the action but in the powerful descriptions and the gentle depiction of the quiet melancholy of everyday life. (Kirkus UK)

Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley's 'Ghost MacIndoe' is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will. Jonathan Buckley's third novel opens with Alexander MacIndoe's earliest memory: a February morning in 1944, in the aftermath of the second wave of German air-raids. Set mainly in London and Brighton, Ghost MacIndoe is the story of the next fifty-four years of Alexander's life. We meet his glamorous mother and his father, a pioneering plastic surgeon; a traumatised war veteran called Mr Beckwith with whom Alexander works for several years as a gardener and, most important of all, the orphaned Megan Beckwith, whose relationship with Alexander crystallises into a romance in the 1970s. In the wake of his highly praised first two novels, Jonathan Buckley's third miraculously brings into being one simple life and the last sixty years of English history.

General

Imprint:	Fourth Estate
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2002
Authors:	Jonathan Buckley
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	480
Edition:	ePub edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84115-228-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84115-228-5
Barcode:	9781841152288

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