Alice Valentine is dying in England. Her sons, Alec, a self-diagnosed failure, and Larry, a falling star, return home to care for her. In Paris, the life of Laszlo Lazar, a Hungarian exile whose play Alec is translating, is marred only by his sense of having betrayed a comrade forty years before. In an evocative, witty, at times claustrophobic book, they play out their deftly paralleled stories, each struggling in his own way to draw breath....
(Siobhan Thomson - bwl 12 January 2002 ) |
