| | The Killjoy |  | Author: Anne Fine
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3115037
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 189
ISBN: 0593010159
EAN: 9780593010150
ASIN: 0593010159
Publication Date: April 24, 1986
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 Disjointed, disconcerting, disappointing June 4, 2003
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A hideously disfigured academic begins an affair with one of his students. The affair develops into something obsessive, and gradually more and more sado-masochistic. From the opening sentences of the retrospective narrative it is abundantly clear that things will end badly. But the sloppy construction of that narrative makes it extremely difficult for the reader to care exactly how badly. Despite some astute insights into the generation gap and moral standards, information about the narrator's past, his pride, his prejudices, tends to be thrown at the reader in irritatingly random fashion. Loose ends turn into presumably unintentional red herrings. Even the title strikes one as somehow inappropriate
Disjointed, disconcerting, disappointing May 16, 2003
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A hideously disfigured academic begins an affair with one of his students. The affair develops into something obsessive, and gradually more and more sado-masochistic. From the opening sentences of the retrospective narrative it is abundantly clear that things will end badly. But the sloppy construction of that narrative makes it extremely difficult for the reader to care exactly how badly. Despite some astute insights into the generation gap and moral standards, information about the narrator’s past, his pride, his prejudices, tends to be thrown at the reader in irritatingly random fashion. Loose ends turn into presumably unintentional red herrings. Even the title strikes one as somehow inappropriate.
All the more disappointing as I had enjoyed the humour of “Taking the Devil’s Advice”. Obsessive jealousy is a rich vein in literature, from “Othello” through Proust and right up to brilliant contemporary evocations such as Julian Barnes’s disquieting “Before She Met Me”. But the convincing representation of it is a task to which this particular novel is decidedly unequal.
 An expertly crafted and sinister novel. August 8, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a very cleverly crafted novel. Fine expertly provides the reader with a facinating gradual exposure of a disturbed mind behind a successfully functional facade. The insight into the psyche of the main character exposes both touchingly sad and deeply disturbing facets. The subtly developing tale reaches a sinister and disturbing conclusion, not spoiled by the sense of inevitability hinted at the start. A compulsive and thrilling book that will haunt the reader long after the last page is finished.
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