![]() ![]() Proving that I am not unable to appreciate a rambling, discursive style. The sentences run on and on and on, winding through clauses and past commas, sometimes for pages and pages. ![]() This time, the writing style is even more conversational, even babbling. These are also the characteristics shared by the protagonist(s) in When the Messenger. ![]() Each story/chapter deals with the life of Charlotte Anne Byers, who is probably mostly Elizabeth Crane: New Yorker, transplanted to Chicago, former alcoholic, divorced parents, opera singer mother who dies of cancer, hapless in matters of romance. These stories are more tightly coupled than those in When The Messenger is Hot - in fact, Glory might even be a novel. ![]()
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