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George W Bush’s first literary attempt is an account of how the man behind the presidential mask saw – and reacted to – the events chronicling his time as President of America, even as the world sat around and judged him.
A pleasantly engaging read for a relatively lazy week, Last Night in Twisted River encompasses the lives of a man and his son, on the run from their past, across the breadth of the United States for over five decades.
It is a thoroughly British novel – not only because it declaims history to be not just the “lies of the victorious” but also “the delusions of the defeated” ,the British having contributed to most of the history of the past few centuries, but because it has the authentic stamp of Julian Barnes’ writing style.
Being the fourth instalment in what was expected to be a trilogy Inheritance is a wonderfully crafted end to the series, and keeps alive the charm of the well-rounded trilogy that precedes it.
I recently finished “The History of the World in 101/2 Chapters” by Julian Barnes. Having acquired the said text, I plodded through exactly 10 and a half chapters of prose which sadly fell short of my expectations, given the brilliance of the first chapter.