Dan Rhodes
Canongate UK (288 p)
October 10, 2012
ISBN 978 0 85786 245 7
From Rhodes (Little Hands Clapping, 2012) comes a comic tale full of surprisingly apt observations about life and love.
Aurelie Renard is an art student in Paris preparing for her final project. She comes up with a convoluted plan to throw a stone into a crowd and then follow the stranger that the stone hits around for a whole week. The stone in fact hits a baby, whose mother promptly hands him over to Aurelie. tells her to 'keep him alive for a week' and walks off. Meanwhile, the artist Le Machine will be presenting his seminal work- Life in an old pornographic theater. At first, it seems that the production is another ridiculous manifestation of modern art, but we ultimately find that the motivations behind Life are deeper than we ever imagined. Rhodes maintains excellent comedic timing while plumbing the depths of the the character's experience on their Parisian adventure.
Heartfelt, funny, with characters that you will fall in love with.
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