No, this is not a pop biography of the Princess of Wales, although in many ways, it is just as exploitative. Fuentes has written the story of his affair with the actress Jean Seberg, whose life ended tragically, possibly in the car in "which she was found, a victim of drugs and alcohol or perhaps her death was staged? Either way, Fuentes has written a tasteless, swaggering and curiously cold book starring -himself as the Great Writer not to mention World's Greatest Lover. "Reasonably or not I've lived to write ... sex politics, soul it all passes through my literary experience." The prose is pretentious - "I finished a book I love a woman" and self regarding. Far from a romance, this is merely an arid exercise by the novelist as mercenary. Fuentes, whose better books, Aura Distant Relations and The Old Grin go, are increasingly looking like complete flukes should really have more sense and some self irony.
