Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked Reviews

“Juliet, Naked is a fine, absorbing and intelligent...”

Written on: 03/03/2010 by degbert (120 reviews written)

Juliet, Naked is a fine, absorbing and intelligent book. It achieves this through Hornby's brilliance in portraying states-of-mind through a first-person narrative, and without resorting to anything as unpleasant as complicated characterisations or detailed plot-lines. The heroine is Annie, stuck in the rut of a protracted and unrewarding relationship with Duncan, whose only obsession in life is with a once-famous songwriter Tucker Crowe, now a recluse somewhere in America. Duncan's... (read more)