Book review: ‘There but for the,’ by Ali Smith
At the heart of Ali Smith's exceedingly clever and subtly wrenching new novel, "There but for the," is a dinner party guest who locks himself into his hosts' spare bedroom between the main course and dessert and refuses to come out — for months. Miles Garth, like J.D. Salinger's Seymour Glass, is a gentle, playful soul who connects most readily with bright children who haven't yet been "onced by life." But he's also a man whose past tragedies have stayed with him, a man with perhaps too much heart to survive tranquilly in a hard world. While Salinger's Seymour blows his brains out, in "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Miles retreats into the guest room of Genevieve and Eric Lee's suburban London townhouse and unwittingly becomes a cause celebre who creates a media frenzy.
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