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Intersect and explode in a riot, for which the URCU (Urban Rapid Control Unit) In the third section, the competing plans and self-interests of the five main characters

Poor childhood, early orphanhood, and gradual self-making. The second section is more interesting, looking back almost 80 years to Victor's The produce baron, and his uncovering of what he considers a betrayal. The first is a rather slow exposition of 80th birthday party of Victor, His characters are human, if sometimes a little naive. With inventions of sayings and songs and so on, Crace doesn't overdo his tendency to get stuck in an iambic groove.Ī fascinating story of how people manipulate each otherĪlthough Crace has again created a slant-wise parallel universe for his story,.It seems fitting for a book that's set mainly in the mid-2020s (a small part is in 2006). While the book has Crace's signature coined words for invented plants, housing, vehicles, etc,.None of the main characters (a man, his wife, and his god-child) seem dangerous or delusional.The plot is clear the subplots reinforce the main plot the surprises are not too.It's less odd than any of his other books (which might win him a larger audience): It might be both self-confession and wishful thinking by the author. how we take what we know and fashion it into fire.Īnd as a presentation as a sofa-activist, it strikes a chord. and implicitly of the process of any improviser. Wonderful presentation of a jazz musician's process. Reliance on coincidence, but no more so than Charles Dickens did.Much more description than conversation.

This (like the previous point) is a way of getting the reader to pay extra attention to the text. The change of rhythm between un-metered and iambic Much of the text is iambic, so one almost feels it is.Trying to remember if they have heard of some particular thing outside of a Crace novel. Their names and attributes are plausible enough to be real. With inventions of just enough sayings and songs, plants and creatures. A partially invented world, which gives the reader a slightlyĬrace creates a slant-wise parallel universe for his stories,.Many techniques present in books by Crace are a signature of his style: Books by Jim Crace: 'The Pesthouse', 'The Gift of Stones', 'Quarentine', etc. Books by Jim Crace: 'All That Follows', 'The Pesthouse', 'The Gift of Stones', 'Quarantine', etc.