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Posted 2016-09-20 8:54 AM (#14336 - in reply to #12253)
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It was rather the lack of coherent structure. The novel has a framing story of boys reading a diary then unexplained separate points of view come in. Are they part of the diary? if not where do they come from? Are the boys reading them? It's just sloppy.
I also had a problem with her characterizations. For years there has been a fully justified criticism of male authors writing cardboard thin female characters. Elison seems to have the same problem with men. They are portrayed as either being psychopathic rapists or passive non-entities.

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