![]() ![]() Trying to distil this multi-layered novel down to a few hooks for a reader is extremely difficult. In Mandel’s novel, Vincent is developed almost into a caricature of someone who is more than the sum of their apparent parts. John Mandel is consciously shifting the focus away from the perhaps obvious protagonist to a female figure who would often be dismissed in a conventional novel. Her life both before, during and after her relationship with the billionaire provides the novel’s framework and it seems St. Perhaps the most prominent character is his girlfriend, Vincent, whom he picks up after making her acquaintance when she is working as a barmaid in his own hotel in the wilderness of British Columbia. ![]() The Madoff figure in the novel has a different name, Jonathan Alkaitis, and is only one of a cast of characters rather than the central focus, but the novel’s project is to show how his rise and fall impacted those both in his immediate circle and wider group of acquaintances. ![]()
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