Survivor

Warning - do not read this if you do not want to know how the book ends. What an odd little book. Whatever else it is, it is haunting, even though I feel the ending to be a cheat somehow. But something in me saw it coming, felt that Paul was not dead, just not in the way the book has him. To have changed identities with Wexford Bone? And in all these years did he ever paint again? Now he is a murderer? It was he who killed Walter and Edna Haggard? For the author to do this has completely diminished the power he had so painstakenly built up in him as an artist of worth. Now he's just a demented killer. It was such a wonderful story of the artist. Now. It's been cheapened. Went for the jolt to the reader, the shock value. I feel let down.