Review
'Surprisingly readable - the frivolity of a youthful modern- times columnist in the culture section of one of the Sundays, combined with a sort of egotistical nastiness and a sad interest in the crappier aspects of the art world somehow results in a page turner.' Matthew Collings
Dogmatika.com
Hilarious reading ... it's hard not to like him.
Literary Review, July 1, 2006
A sort of absurdist, amoral fable.
Product Description
My name is Nathaniel Water and I want this to be the best novel you have ever read because it is about me and I am the most interesting person I have ever met...Nathaniel Water is a young British artist. While his career is burgeoning his love life is descending into ever-deepening despair. Easily bored, he proposes marriage to his beautiful Slovak girlfriend, Jelena, with whom he fights constantly. But they are soon forced to go their separate ways. He then returns to London where he meets Harriet, Jelena's antithesis, and marries her instead. But that is not the end of it. Both women become pregnant at different stages, he leaves each of them at least once, and deserts both when they most need him. This wryly comic tale reveals the dangers of celebrity combined with chronic ennui, which leads to alienation from friends and family.
About the Author
Jasper Joffe is a painter and novelist. He was born in the US in 1975 and moved to England when he was eight. He studied Fine Art at Ruskin College in Oxford, completed an MA in painting at The Royal College of Art in London, and received a scholarship to the British School at Rome, where he spent nine months. He has had solo exhibitions in London, Rome, Milan, and Brno. His work is also in the Saatchi Collection. He lives in London. This is his first novel.
