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The anxious narrators of her disjointedly elliptical novels are always interrupting, challenging, undercutting themselves.
Roy's inventive narrative style (multiple flashbacks, rotating narrators) and "the exuberant, almost acrobatic nature of the writing itself" (Alice Truax, the New York Times Book Review ) are singled out as breathtaking.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
This novel, about a widow who finds happiness communing with ghosts, switches narrators and plot lines so often that it is said to be unreadable--and pretentious, particularly when Rice holds forth on Catholic theology and classical music.
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