Bottom line: I secretly found the tough and mean-spirited tale -- a censored exhibit of the 13 "Wanted" (double entendre) by Andy Warhol -- mysterious and titillating.
Yet there is much to commend in this spirited, entertaining tale.
The Greenwich Village bar, which last year won a Spirited Award (Tales's annual industry awards) as World's Best Cocktail Bar, did a pop-up version of itself in the French Quarter bar One Eyed Jacks.
Donning a pair of spectacles slightly larger than welder's goggles, she settles down to read, and at once we are spirited into the tale that Edward tells.
From time to time, we are spirited into a tale that Chow is writing, entitled "2046," which envisions a future where humans zip around on superfast trains, heading for a place where they can, allegedly, recapture their memories.
Reviewing "Selected Stories" in 1996, John Updike wrote: "As well as a spirited, acutely perceptive tale teller, Ms. Munro is an implacable destiny spinner, whose authorial voice breaks into her fiction like that of a God who can no longer bear to keep quiet".
Indeed, Caitlin Moran's spirited coming-of-age tale romps from strength to strength.
That though seems a small price to pay for such a spirited work.Mr Holmes's tale ends at the start of the 20th century when the business of flight was being handed over to the airship and the aeroplane.
