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Cairo (2013)

by Chris Womersley(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1922070513 (ISBN13: 9781922070517)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Scribe Publications

review 1: This book should have been more interesting than it was. It is set in a block of flats that still exists in inner city Melbourne. Seventeen year old Tom Button moves from the country and takes up residence at the Cairo flats in Carlton. Tim is a country innocent and is taken up and taken in by various artistic and sophisticated people in the flats. The book is a fictional account of the theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery. All the ingredients are there for a riveting read, but they don't quite come together. Not recommended.
review 2: I wanted to like this story, as it was set in Melbourne, where I live, was about a country kid coming to the city to go to university in the mid 80s, like I did, and was full of places and events that I ... morewas familiar with. Despite this, I didn't connect with the story or the characters at all, although I'm not quite sure why. I didn't get a strong sense of the time it was set in, in many ways it felt more like a much earlier era, with the young, naive Tom falling in with an older, sophisticated bohemian crowd. Similarly, I didn't get a strong sense of the characters, with the stereotypical bohemians, tortured artists, heroin addicts, and token gay man not developing much beyond the standard expectations of these types of characters. There was an emotional distance between me and the story the whole time. Perhaps this was in part because we were told so often of what was happening, rather than just being shown it, so overall it just didn't come to life for me. less

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