A review by krismcd59
Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn

3.0

Terribly British skewering of the publishing industry and the whole concept of book awards. St. Aubyn has fun mocking just about every type of popular fiction, and the philistine attitudes of those who make a living off of authors and popular culture. It's a very slight volume -- all the characters are really just sketches -- and the satire is perhaps a little too spot-on to actually be funny, but authors and readers will find this an astringent palate-cleaner before attacking their teetering piles of to-be-read summer novels.