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Restless william boyd synopsis6/27/2023 In it, an American anthropologist called Page Arbogast tells her sister, Amelia, about the recent arrival of a new assistant, 'a tall young Scotsman, about thirty-five years old, called Brodie Moncur'. William Boyd’s layered and intricate novel begins close to its end point, with a brief prologue in the form of a 1906 letter from a British penal colony in the Bay of Bengal. On the surface Love Is Blind has all the hallmarks of a slow-burning thriller-the event-packed story of a single decade in Brodie’s life. Love Is Blind eventually reminded me of a tired revival of one of Franco Zeffirelli’s decades-old, hyper-naturalistic stagings for the Metropolitan Opera: all surface detail, no life. In any case, however, there are only flickers of the charm you would want to steadily emanate from such a period production. it’s depressing that he thought that classical music would be the perfectly complementary subject matter, as lovably hoary as the narrative style he is pantomiming. the book’s promise of eroticism ends up involving only some risible sex writing. There are halfhearted efforts to place the plot vividly in its time. But there’s no philosophical armature to Love Is Blind, only the most convoluted of bildungsromans. This is a 'play it again, Sam' kind of production, the novelistic equivalent of the showy orchestral chestnut 'Pines of Rome.' Love Is Blind goes down easy, its pleasures are vaguely guilty, and upon setting it down, it swiftly vanishes from the mind.
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