![]() ![]() The form of the novel is fragmented and recursive, with chapters ranging from one sentence to several pages. In contrast, Evelyn was hypersensitive and always a tad strange. The central relationships of his life, however, remained those with his mother and, to a lesser extent, with his father, Westy, a gruff atheist with little emotional subtlety. Thorn, whose philosophical mind appealed to the many questions Christopher was raising at the time. At a young age, he’d gotten sexually involved with a Stanford graduate student, and later in his adolescence, he became intrigued with Dr. ![]() We find a number of complexities in his character-for example, although he was a fairly mediocre student, he was a prodigy at bridge. ![]() Although a few weeks after his mother’s death Christopher goes to Bhutan, most of the book is taken up by Christopher’s life before his mother’s suicide. ![]() Christopher was 22 when this happened, and the novel moves chronologically both backward and forward from this one event. The central event of the narrative is Christopher Westall’s discovery of the body of his mother, Evelyn, who died by suicide. A remarkable and multifaceted novel-philosophical, poignant and puzzling. ![]()
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