Never read any before and sadly the guy died of cancer earlier this year. The central character in this book is suffering and suffers the same fate; I presume not coincidentally.
This is both a funny and angry book about friendships, illusions, and failures. You need to probably map out the characters, all of whom lived together as students, early on (I didn’t).
Although stylistically I didn’t like the writing, I liked the central conceit — a dying man both loving and expressing his loathing for a group of rather nondescript friends, who were just his friends. ‘In the end, we’re just standing here looking into a fucking big hole in the ground’, which is both the quarry and the end of the guys’s life.
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