BOOK • ‘Juliet Naked’
Annie and Duncan are living in a town called Gooleness, which had its best days in 1964 when a shark got washed ashore, and they come to realize that they may have wasted the last 15 years of their lives with someone they may have never loved to begin with.
'Juliet Naked'
Duncan has more of a love affair with Tucker Crowe, a musician who fell off the radar over 20 years ago and with whom Anne is starting a real love affair with. Tucker, who wasted most of his life in a relationship with booze, has five children from four different mothers, only one having been raised by him. So, how do you make up for the lost time, and how do you move on are the questions posed in Nick Hornby’s compelling novel. Hornby’s humorous writing style is as inviting as ever and you can relate with the characters’ inner feelings as the story’s narration jumps between Tucker, Annie and Duncan much imitating the style in “A Long Way Down. The themes of music, relationships and despair can go hand-in-hand with those from “High Fidelity.” The novel does not have a very climatic ending and though, not as much of a page turner as some of Hornby’s previous work, it is still well worth the read in the end.
By Stephanie Snay | Distribution Manager
