A Review: The Beach

Confidently exploring every travellers remote island and secluded beach fantasy, Alex Garland tantalises the consequences of sprightliness on the paradise on earth, conveniently being the Beach. The authors utopian debut novel illustrates (using notably clear prose) a conventional tale of generation resentment and confusion appearing influenced by film, in its theme, its narrative style and the fixation of the main characters, particularly the protagonist.

Bangkoks backpackers quarter, the Khao San Road, is where the novel begins in a decompression chamber for those about to transmit or enter Thailand, a halfway house betwixt East and West (p. ).

At a guesthouse on the outskirts of Bangkok, a disturbed, suicidal Vietnam veteran, called Daffy Duck (more Warner Bros. characters to follow!) gives a young, British traveller named Richard a map to paradise, a secret beach on an out of reach(predicate) island near Ko Samui, isolated, unspoiled and not-yet-featuring in the latest lonely Planet Guide... That very night, Duffy Duck cuts his wrists destined to play with Richards imagination. tended to(p) by Etienne and Françoise, a young French couple who argon fellow travellers (and guesthouse residents); Richard sets out on an udventure to find the beach.

From the very commence of The Beach, the reader is faced with a book about filmic archetypes or clichés and wild imagination, that is made clear in the wholeness page of text in italics with which the book opens. It is hallucinating and intoxicated, a climaxing of voices, beginning with a Vietnamese(?) prostitute (All day, all night, me love you farsighted time), switching to a scene of paranoid combat (this is important patrol and we are taking fire), and with an interesting identification of unimaginative Vietnam movie moments: Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass by a rifle barrel, flying on a chop with opera blasting out of loudspeakers,

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