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Like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway, who claimed to be both "within and without," Torres's sensitive and hyperobservant narrator, bookish and "pansy scented," claims to be "both inside and outside," relating this coming-of-age story in a spare and impressionistic style that lasts nearly to the very end, when the strobe light's pace suddenly quickens and careens us, headlong and a bit jarringly, into unexpected betrayal and rupture.
NYT > Home Page By JOSEPH SALVATORE 2011
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Like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway, who claimed to be both "within and without," Torres's sensitive and hyperobservant narrator, bookish and "pansy scented," claims to be "both inside and outside," relating this coming-of-age story in a spare and impressionistic style that lasts nearly to the very end, when the strobe light's pace suddenly quickens and careens us, headlong and a bit jarringly, into unexpected betrayal and rupture.
NYT > Home Page By JOSEPH SALVATORE 2011
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