So, I'm making a change. I'm going to start attending Oxygen Anonymous meetings, and I'm going to try to kick the habit. It's going to be hard, but I'm ready to try.
The narrator is an Irish alcoholic living in New York and Amsterdam. After a painful divorce, he adopts a deliberate method: seduce women, make them fall in love, then discard them cruelly. The diary format amplifies the sense of voyeuristic complicity. The second half shifts when he meets a woman who mirrors his own cruelty, forcing him into a destructive mutual obsession. The novel ends not with redemption but with exhausted repetition. a diary of an oxygen thief new