Piers Paul Read - The Misogynist

The Telegraph“A delicious finale to an absorbing book...” The novel deserves a readership, not just for the limpidity of its prose, but for its unsparing insights into 21st-century Britain, where the bar for success is raised ever higher and the price of failure is correspondingly brutal...

Financial Times“Belongs to the genre of Old Git Lit...” There is much in the book to admire. As a portrait of the everyday existence of a member of the ageing middle classes, the novel is full of intelligence, wit and humorous perception. However, the plot begins to dip badly in its final chapters...

The Independent“A deceptively simple narrative...” Paints a precise, bleak yet glancingly ironic picture of the existential unhappiness of one sophisticated, metropolitan man. A couple of surprising twists build to a moving if typically low-key denouement.

Guardian“There is a retributive strain in all his fiction...” In some respects, Read is attempting to occupy the same territory as Philip Roth in his later work – of impotence as a spur to the self-knowledge of "the dying animal" – but the parameters are altogether more English and restrained...

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