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“He is not telling stories; he is using the elements of storytelling to gesture in the direction of a constellation of moods, themes, and images. He is creating the literary equivalent of a Cornell box or a rock garden or a floral arrangement....He makes a point of leaving some discontinuities and detours in place. The mode of composition becomes the meaning of the book.” —from a review of it in the New Yorker