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'an artistic nugget, shapless yet shapely, daring and burnished...from first to last an enticing read.' --Tom Adair, The Scotsman
'It is a phenomenally good novel. It is brilliant, touching, funny and clever. It is also a sign that Kevin MacNeil is only just starting. Some of you out there can look forward to another 30 or 40 years of such quality and better. You are very lucky. We are lucky.' --Roger Hutchinson, West Highland Free Press
'A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a great book...intricate and powerful.' --The Skinny
'It is a phenomenally good novel. It is brilliant, touching, funny and clever. It is also a sign that Kevin MacNeil is only just starting. Some of you out there can look forward to another 30 or 40 years of such quality and better. You are very lucky. We are lucky.' --Roger Hutchinson, West Highland Free Press
'A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde is a great book...intricate and powerful.' --The Skinny
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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, quite possibly, his mind. 'A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde' is a dark, maniacal thriller that explores many kinds of duality - individual, social and cultural, and is a heartfelt tale about the search for belonging and the nature of love and desire. It is also bloody funny.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Struggling, ineffective but ambitious young actor Robert Lewis is about to play the lead in a production of Jekyll and Hyde when he is nearly killed by a vehicle knocking him off his bike as he cycles through Edinburgh. On recovering he finds the characters of his fellow actors, including former girlfriend Juliette, have changed and he perceives he is being victimised. As a reaction to this Lewis's own character changes and he becomes more driven, powerful and dominant. But, that is not the whole story! To be honest, when I read the opening chapters of the novel it was a bit of a struggle. I thought the author, through his main character, was trying too hard to sound hip, modern and flash by using quirkily worded sentences, sentences that only half made sense and with an unnecessary kaleidoscope of language. However, I soon realised that the language and its construction were perfectly suited to the over active, indeed fevered brain of Robert Lewis. This is a great book. I wouldn't have said so at the start, and even two thirds of the way through I would have said it was merely a really good read but, in the last quarter, which I won't spoil by revealing, everthing is turned wildly on its head and a fantastic whole is delivered up. So, buy this book and DO read it to the very end. You're in for a treat!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I hugely enjoyed A Method Actor's Guide to Jekyll and Hyde; a good fast-paced read with plenty of humour, giving me real laugh-out-loud moments. But all the way through I was enjoying the tale that was unfolding before me, trying to second guess what would be the outcome, I found it a thrilling read...I loved it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a layered, intense, intelligent book. But its true genius lies in the fact that you will only really see all that when you get close to the end. I started reading and was quickly drawn in by the black humour and fast-paced writing. And then, at a certain point, everything changed. Suffice to say an intriguing new light was shed on all that had gone before. I never re-read books - but I am going to make an exception for this one. Brilliant - highly recommended.
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Jekyll & Hyde revisited
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Robert (Lewis) is in a bad way after a cycling accident, but he is determined that it will not affect his casting in the lead role(s) of a new production... Read more
Robert (Lewis) is in a bad way after a cycling accident, but he is determined that it will not affect his casting in the lead role(s) of a new production... Read more
Published 12 days ago by neverendings
Awful
I read this book on reading the * recommendations and I thought it was awful!!...or perhaps I just didn't get it :(
Published 6 months ago by RT Twinem
a method actors guide
Kevin once again provides a book that grips you from start to finish, if you live or have stayed in the Edinburgh area you'll know what i'm trying to say from the minute you start... Read more
Published 14 months ago by gixerpix
Sparkling Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the classic texts of Scottish, maybe World literature. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Donald Mackay
light and shade revealed in equal (half-full, half-empty) measure
Subtler, more considered and richer in tone and detail than his debut hit 'The Stornoway Way', Kevin MacNeil's sophomore novel takes the reader on a wild ride through Edinburgh and... Read more
Published 21 months ago by mr drawler
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