He is a child prodigy of the visual arts. It continued to rain.” This is from chapter one and it can be seen that as Asher gets older his sentences can become more complex, especially when he is talking about art.Īsher Lev is a born artist. The sentences are typically short, blunt and declarative, such as: “ My father found me like that in the doorway.
He grows up into a highly organised and secure world, that of a Jewish sect in Brooklyn. The world of Asher Lev is very different. This suited the world being created, a world of decadence and decay, spoilt rich kids, drug-taking, disillusion. I found it difficult to follow the narrative, at times to work out who was who. It jumped around in time and the characters merged into different worlds. The last book I read, Eros Island by Tony Hanania, was characterised by paragraph-long sentences, with multiple commas and semi-colons, which explored descriptions with unusual words and vivid metaphors.
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