The Honeymoon: A Novel Review

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The Honeymoon: A Novel ReviewThis is a strange, bittersweet, and self-reflective novel. Lacking a readily recognizable plot line, the story is really a collection of vignettes structured around the first person point of view of Gordon Garrety, a rather disaffected and indifferent young man, who reminisces on his unusual relationship with Maureen, his volatile, and self-absorbed mother. When Gordon meets and marries Annie, a rather easy going working girl, Maureen and her irascible fiancée, Gerhardt invite them both to Venice on a honeymoon. What follows is a slowly paced, but rather intense account of their holiday in Venice, where an incident of sudden fury against Annie, puts Gordon at terrible odds with his Mother.
The strength of this novel is the way Haythe paints an indelible and detailed portrait of his characters, and it is obvious from the outset, that with all their faults he adores them. Rich, uncommitted and somewhat bored, his characters move through a world of privilege and stuffy entitlement. The narrative is told in the first person so attitudes and opinions are filtered through Gordon's point of view as he spends much of the novel ruminating on the type of woman that Maureen once was. Maureen is a difficult woman - dogmatic, self involved and self obsessed with "a willingness to distort the truth." Even though she "continues to hold and influence over him, she has already set some record of their life together."
Haythe's writing is subtle, fluid and descriptive, and like a painting he is intent on describing the intimate details of unconventional lives. Maureen is described as an aging beauty with "her skin taut on her thighs" and "beneath her white skin is a delicate design of blue veins like cobwebs beneath a frost." Her indubitable passion is art and painting, and Gordon watches her unquestioningly as tears role silently down her cheeks while she stands before Vermeer's Lady in a Red Hat, or Hopper's Sun in an Empty Room. There are some great moments in Honeymoon, particularly Gordon and Annie's sardonic wedding reception, which takes place in a London pub, and where family and guests seem strangely at odds with each other. And there are also some wonderful descriptions of Venice, set against the backdrop of the characters' inevitable maneuverings. This is an intuitive and subtle portrayal of family relationships bought to the edge, and is a wonderfully accomplished first novel. Mike Leonard March 04.The Honeymoon: A Novel Overview

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