![]() ![]() ![]() The only clues we have about his interior life come from his own account, in which he sometimes blames others (such as his tormentors during his boarding school days), or from his statements in which he says he genuinely prefers to be alone. He is hard-pressed to make the main character interesting in his own right, however, since Engleby has spent his whole life avoiding contact with other people. Recreating the life of Mike Engleby from his childhood in the 1960s until 2006, when he is fifty-two, author Sebastian Faulks achieves remarkable success in making this novel both readable and intriguing. ![]() Even the best of us is no more than an inert piece of card with some markings." We are like cards in a pack, and the king of spades is a better thing to be than the two of diamonds but none of us is a dealer or a player with free will and power to dispose none of us can see or understand the value of the entire deck, let alone the rules of the game in which it's employed. "We may think as we grow older that we know more, but in truth no one has an overarching view, no one can see in the round. Over to read a review of A Week in December) ![]()
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