A post-modern puzzle about self and identity.
Alexander embarks on a remarkable experiment, the likes of which no one has attempted before: to find who he is by writing a book as if he were a watching detective. With Penny, Alexander is a gadfly, mucking her about, unable to see past her beauty; but with Melanie, he has met his match. It is remarkable how quickly the mood shifts from talk of big questions (religion, God, beauty, how mirrors lie) to the perfectly ordinary nuances between a couple.
About the author
Mark Carew was born in Wales and brought up near Sudbury, Suffolk. He studied Biochemistry at King’s College, London, and received a Ph D in Cell Physiology from Cambridge in 1995. After post docs in Cambridge and North Carolina, he worked as a medical writer before joining Kingston University where he is an Associate Professor. His stories have appeared in print and online in literary magazines. The Book of Alexander is his first novel.
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