Book description
This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the contradictions
between the public face and the private experience. Nephew to the prime
minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to make sense of the
grown-up world around him, a colourful crowd of television
personalities, politicians, young, Trokatires, pop stars, and eccentric
relatives. With the help of his laconic psychoanalyst, Bert questions
the relation between exterior and interior reality, while Mosley himself
questions art's ability to convey these different realities. Both Bert
and Mosley triumph over these challenges by the end of this engaging and
innovative novel. This vivid and strikingly witty novel examines the
contradictions between the public face and the private experience.
Nephew to the prime minister of England, eighteen-year-old Bert tries to
make sense of the grown-up world around him, a colourful crowd of
television personalities, politicians, young, Trokatires, pop stars, and
eccentric relatives. With the help of his laconic psychoanalyst, Bert
questions the relation between exterior and interior reality, while
Mosley himself questions art's ability to convey these different
realities. Both Bert and Mosley triumph over these challenges by the end
of this engaging and innovative novel.
