Annette Mingels dedicates an entire novel to the anti-type of our time, the vain, egomaniacal, aging family man. Is it still bearable?
Who hasn’t wondered how other people can like someone you despise? You don’t have to like Annette Mingels’ heroes, for example. Carl Kruger, actually Krüger, professor emeritus of chemistry at Princeton, as he looks after his terminally ill wife Helen in his uneventful everyday life, thinks back to the times when students swarmed him and he could seduce them without it doing him any harm. As in previous books, the writer Annette Mingels traces hairline cracks and breaks in a life in “The Last Lover”.