A review by bookthia
Headhunter by Timothy Findley

2.0

Findlay is brilliant, but this wasn't one of my faves of his. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it. The parallels between this book and Heart of Darkness were fascinating. The discussion of 'madness' was interesting as well. The part I struggled with was the extremely disturbing sexual behaviours of some of the characters. I realize that to explore a theme of 'sex as power' these character's behaviours were necessary to the book, but it was just too edgy for me in some places.I found the ending to be a bit weak. Anti-climactic almost. I think that is because I wanted punishment and there wasn't any. Or at least one that I felt was suitable to the crimes committed.Still... some brilliant reflections and passages, and fodder for some deep social discussion.