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Ryan Paine

Ryan Paine reviews 'Metro' by Alasdair Duncan

April 2007, no. 290 17 October 2022
Ryan Paine reviews 'Metro' by Alasdair Duncan
Alasdair Duncan’s Second novel, Metro, opens as a perceptive and witty portrait of the urban, metrosexual scene. Once again, the main character is a repressed homosexual: this time his peers are twenty-something business and law students. The novel palls around chapter four, just maintaining interest in loops of nightclub scenes, bawdy behaviour and skin-deep insights. The vernacular tone is ref ... (read more)