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Begley, Louis. Shipwreck.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 256p. Knopf, $23 (1-4000-4098-1).
It's always a risky proposition to center a novel on an unsympathetic, unlikable character. That's the gamble Begley takes here with smug yet self-loathing novelist John North, who buttonholes an unassuming patron in a Paris bistro and pours out his pathetic story. Recent winner of a literary prize and the recipient of a Hollywood paycheck for a film based on his novel, North feels his newfound money and fame entitle him to take revenge on his saintly physician wife for the many petty grievances he holds against her ultra-wealthy family, who have always valued doers over aesthetes. After being interviewed by sexy Parisian journalist Lea ...
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