A review by laurencenz
Amnesia by Peter Carey

3.0

I liked it, but found the construction unnecessarily difficult. The frame of the story was the has-been journalist using material from 2 subjects on cassettes - it seemed that the grammar/syntax/tenses were all messed up at times. I am sure they weren't, and I love his writing, but in this novel the structure got in the way and the insights I was hoping for, did not materialise.

There was a great story inside waiting to be told, but it somehow never surfaced. I as excited for the first 100 pages, but by the end I felt disappointed.