I think that this might be a picaresque novel...it's about a pompous, self-satisfied and lazy theatre director that gets his deserved comeuppance early in the book, and then - after a miserable decline that's hard to feel too sorry for - plots and achieves revenge over his equally awful enemies. It was not very enjoyable spending so much time in the company of not-so-pleasant people, but I gradually warmed to the book because despite everything Attwood is a such a good storyteller. Much of the narrative takes place in a prison, because the central character becomes the director of a prison theatre program, which he uses for the revenge.
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