![]() But like the family’s Dutch house, it’s an enduring structure, which gives an added dimension to the references in the text - its way of gesturing toward a lineage. ![]() It can feel old-fashioned: her style, her attachment to a very traditional kind of storytelling - a vision of the novel as a Dutch house, with a clarity and transparency of purpose and method, a refusal of narrative tricksiness. I can’t pluck out one sentence worth quoting, but how effective they are when woven together-these translucent lines that envelop you like a spider’s web. ![]() Patchett’s prose is confident, unfussy and unadorned. ![]()
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