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Caret

Caret

Contemporary LiteratureLiterary Fiction
Pages
800
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

John Cromer, a man who believes the center of things might be in a corner, navigates 1970s Cambridge with charm and wit as his primary survival tools. This installment of his lifelong story offers a deep dive into his unique mind, where the lines between performance and reality blur. Each chapter of this novel provides a rich, literary experience, promising to engage and entertain readers with its distinctive voice.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

Thought-ProvokingPhilosophicalSatiricalIntellectual
Unreliable Narrator

Genres

Contemporary Literature Literary Fiction

About the author

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Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time. His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of The Waters of Thirst, and only suffered further with the appearance of Pilcrow, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable...

Characters

John CromerProtagonist
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