The Apartment: A Review
So I was wandering the aisles of my local bookstore the other day. I wasn’t particularly looking to buy anything, but killing time while it rained outside, and with nothing else to do. It was one of those days. You know the type. That was when I picked Greg Baxter’s novel off the shelf, where it was sandwiched in between two other novels. One of the rules is never judge a book by its cover – but I did just that. Penguin have designed a lovely cover for The Apartment. With cover quotes from Hisham Matar and Roddy Doyle (two very different writers, tonally, causing yet further intrigue). The first few lines of the blurb on the back have sold me, and a reading of the opening page is enough to seal the deal. The Apartment, then, is that kind of novel. One to discover surreptitiously, to come to with little preconception. Its power lies in its simplicity – that is, a simplicity that carries such overpowering dep...