Eric Ratcliffe

That was ... odd. Odder than I was hoping! I stumbled across this while looking for books similar to The Hearing Trumpet (which I love), but it lacked The Hearing Trumpet's delightful characters and intelligible plot ... rather it seemed like a handful of dreams uneasily stuck together and about as interesting as that might seem. A few passages or moments were compelling, but the form was just too amorphous to be involving, for me. (If you're looking for a compelling dream-like read, try Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, the afore-mentioned Trumpet if you want a great read from a Surrealist artist, and a bazillion other books if you're keen on the woman-tries-to-escape-Uncle's-home angle (which is, to the extent that there is any, the plot).… (más)