A review by ianbanks
Blackeyes by Dennis Potter

3.0

While it's a worthy effort at looking at the downside of the then-current rise of the supermodels and how it affects the people working within and attached to that industry it falls down through its apologetic prose and structural and thematic similarity to Mr Potter's previous work, The Singing Detective. There's the mix of reality and fantasy, the references to popular music from a previous generation, a character who laments the similarity of his name to that of an iconic member of his profession - there's even a woman's naked body pulled from the water! This sort of repetition of theme and idea doesn't normally bother me too much because good authors usually have a lot more stuff going on in their writing than their pet concerns/ obsessions but as this is quite a slender volume it came across as derivative more than anything else.