The suspense is akin to the dining room chair with a bomb underneath it whose long fuse fizzles outs before the spark even gets near the room.ĮF’s method of teaching, like that of the Greeks, is collaborative, and although she admits that she is no Socrates, and her class is no bunch of Platos, they would have a dialogue. But I knew obscurely that, for once in my life, I had arrived at the right place.” But it is not too heavy for Neil, who is so enamored by EF, who says he “can’t remember what she taught us in that first lesson. In part one, Neil is in his mid-30s when he meets EF while taking an adult education course called “Culture and Civilisation.” It seems a bit heavy for a typical adult education course, since it primarily concerns philosophy, theology and history. In Elizabeth Finch, Neil, a twice-divorced occasional actor, narrates this three-part tribute of Platonic love to his former teacher, whom he calls EF. He has written more than 25 books, including several memoirs and esteemed story and essay collections-and even a few pseudonymous novels as Dan Kavanagh.
His best novel, The Sense of an Ending (2011), won the Man Booker Prize three of his previous works, Flaubert’s Parrot (1984), England, England (1998) and Arthur & George (2005), were shortlisted for the same prize.
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