Thursday, July 16, 2015

Beautiful Ruins: A Wildly Imaginative Work of Art



Off the Shelf
By John Lescroart    |   Wednesday, July 15, 2015
I don’t think it is much of a stretch to say that narrative voice is the single most important element in fiction. Let’s call it some ephemeral mixture of tone, timing, sensibility, word choice, and thematic vision; when these successfully coalesce, they create an unseen yet hugely powerful psychic entity that beguiles and welcomes the reader into that willing suspension of disbelief that makes novels, and what happens in them, not only possible but plausible and even inevitable.... READ MORE






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