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A Method Actor's Guide To Jekyll and Hyde: A Novel
After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life has changed for the darker. And the weirder. He's still a deceitful egoist but now life seems to be deceiving and manipulating him. Everything that can go wrong is going wrong. He's losing control of his love life, his starring role in a new adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde, and...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
August 1st 2010
by Birlinn Ltd
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This novel flows yet spins on a dime, much like occurrences in a dream; somehow crazy but it all makes sense in the end. Part way through the book I picked up on the little image between sections and by the end realized how clever it was. The theme of Jekyll and Hyde seems to be endlessly versatile in revealing our natures, I particularly enjoyed how it was employed in this novel overlapped with method acting. The characters are well-drawn especially the main character and be prepared to love hi...more
Hmm. Bits of it I did love - the stuff about Edinburgh and actorly goings-on - but other bits just left me perplexed. The clever stuff took place too late in the day for me to really 'get it'. Maybe I needed to have read 'Jekyll and Hyde' first, or maybe there was just too much introspection happening in my own head to be bothered with someone else's self-obsession.
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Mostly twaddle. I could try to be supportive because it's Scottish but that would be patronising.
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