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The Deaths (2013)

by Mark Lawson(Favorite Author)

3.39 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1447235681 (ISBN13: 9781447235682)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Picador

review 1: I stumbled across this in a used bookstore in London, and I picked it up without having heard anything about it. Lawson successfully skewers upper-middle-class society by focusing on four families living in a village in SE England (commuting distance to London). I was pleasantly surprised by Lawson's ability to create a cast of pretty awful, damaged characters and yet somehow still elicit sympathy and sadness from me. I have often found with this kind of contemporary novel that I end up hating the characters so much that I can't even be bothered to finish.
review 2: Extremely observant and witty, this was a really enjoyable read slightly off the beaten path. I thoroughly enjoyed this and the black comedy style it held throughout. I mentioned it at the begi... morenning but the thing that really flawed me about this story is the details Lawson has added to his characters through observance bringing out our deepest flaws in the most satirical of ways. Just brilliant. less

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