Black Confetti review

Eli Kent’s Y-dunit will surely add lustre to his already shiny reputation.

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14th July, 2012

Review

As its opening scene efficiently and amusingly establishes – via the examination of an academic transcript consisting of seven years of entry- level papers – Black Confetti’s twenty-something protagonist, Siggy, is a little boy lost whose extra-curricular drug dealing is at least partly responsible for a fellow student’s fatal OD. An apparent lack of a moral centre isn’t the only absence in Siggy’s life – his famous seismologist father is missing, presumed drowned, a mystery that keeps the plot ticking over. That’s a MacGuffin, though; this isn’t really a whodunit. ...

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