St. Aubyn's take on "King Lear"

Edward St. Aubyn's "Dunbar" was a surprisingly riveting novel for me.  I honestly do not remember all the details of Shakespeare's "King Lear" from my high school curriculum, but I certainly thought "Dunbar" was a thoroughly enjoyable take on the old Shakespeare classic. 



Admittedly, the novel picked up a bit slowly for my taste.  Overall, though, underneath all of the family drama (on steroids) in "Dunbar", the hunger for power and the bittersweet power of forgiveness pulled me through each page.  I would recommend this for someone who appreciates Shakespeare's tragedies as well as someone not as familiar with Shakespeare.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.