![]() He talks to himself in a faux French accent as he cooks, and adopts a German or possibly Russian one when he does “Zee moppink of zee floors”. He lives alone he keeps to himself his routine is etched in stone.Īnd he has some frankly ludicrous quirks. YOU HAVE TO WONDER what goes through the mind of a man like Micah Mortimer. ![]() The novel focuses on Mycah Mortimer and it would be very easy to write him off as an intensely boring man and someone unworthy of being the protagonist of a novel: I’d not read anything by Anne Tyler before, although I was aware that A Spool of Blue Thread had been longlisted for the Booker Prize, just as this one was. Abruptly, he signals for a turn, and when the light changes he heads east instead of continuing north.”Īfter reading a number of heavily plot driven books this year, Redhead was a definite change of pace for me. “The only place I went wrong, he writes, was expecting things to be perfect. ![]()
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