A wonderful novel, with not a wasted word. Every sentence leads you into the mind of an ordinary man who is tipped over the edge by a final loss he cannot bear. It is difficult not to sympathise with him, which would be okay if it weren't for his extreme reactions to his loss. The sympathy is made possible by the eponymous narrator being dissociated from the other living human characters in the story, to the point where they are almost one dimensional.
I haven't read a better book in months, perhaps years.