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All That Follows. Jim Crace (2011)

by Jim Crace(Favorite Author)

2.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0330445650 (ISBN13: 9780330445658)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Picador USA

review 1: I enjoyed this book, although it has a slow start, almost too slow – and I was growing impatient, and was near putting it down forever, when the plot picked up – and I became involved with the main character and his situation. Leonard Lessing is a jazz musician in a failing marriage, who cannot bear to pick up his sax, and is feeling useless. He’s a bit of a coward, impetuous, but essentially decent – he gets involved with a hostage situation, a house surrounded by cops, and the man inside with the gun is a man he knew from 20 years ago, when he was active in far left politics. Not violent himself, but he rubbed shoulders with those keen to overthrow the government by any means.Leonard meets the hostage takers' daughter, and she concocts a crazy plan which he dopil... morey agrees to, and he’s caught up with his wife in the events around the house with all its dangers and media frenzy.I became thoroughly engaged in this thoughtful book. Leonard, his wife, the hostage taker and his daughter are all interesting characters who drew me and held me, once the book took off from its pedestrian beginning.
review 2: Lennie Less is an accomplished British jazz saxophonist who is about to turn 50 in October 2024, and is reasonably happy, as he is in a comfortable marriage and his music has provided him with personal satisfaction and material comfort.One day he watches a hostage drama taking place in a nearby town, and recognizes the intruder as Maxie Lermon, an American activist that he met years ago, as he was the lover of a Nadia Emmerson, a woman he also loved. He wants to be of some assistance, knowing that the man has a violent streak and might kill his hostages. He meets up with the teenage daughter of Maxie and Nadia; she concocts a risky plan to bring the hostage drama to an end. Lennie, who is cautious to a fault, has reservations about the plan, yet cannot completely distance himself from the woman he once loved, and the young girl he has become enamored with.Despite an interesting story line I found this book to be quite disappointing, as I could not empathize with any of the characters, and I found Lennie, the main character, to be selfish, wishy washy and thoroughly annoying. Fortunately this was a short novel, but it's one I would not recommend. less

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