Brainy, penniless single mother brings up prodigy child on classical authors - learned on the Circle Line where it's warm - and Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, to provide missing father-figures. As the narration moves from mother's intentions to son's interpretation of them it becomes clear that this ploy works rather better than expected. Impossible to do justice to this utterly original fodder for both head and heart: intellectual fun, a young boy's quest for identity and MUCH more.
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 26 October 2004 ) |
