Literary Significance & Criticism
The book is seen by critics of Garner's work as related in style and structure to Red Shift (1973) and Thursbitch (2003). In all three time is fragmented, since it is approached through the characters' inner lives in terms of both memory and experience, and it is their idea of their identity that shapes the experience.
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