Matthew Henry John Bartlett

I finished Man Alone by John Mulgan today. What a great title. I read it because so far I’ve not read much of what I suppose you’d call the New Zealand canon, and I want to get up to speed. Now that I’ve finished I say it was worth the read. Part Two really changed the feel of the book for me. When I’d only read Part One it felt like a bit of a ramble, a meaningless meander – and in a sense it is, that’s the point, it’s a life of a man bouncing around groundless, pragmatic and reacting, but not crushed. It’s about the principalities and powers.