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...happens in a bad dream, both Goodwins are nearly paralyzed by their terrible fate; Alice sleeps 20 hours a day. And there is another similarity to the skewed reality of nightmares. At the edges of the reader's field of vision, backdrops are unpainted and sets only sketchily built. There is no strong sense of sheltering farm, disapproving town or world beyond the Goodwins' tragedy, and this intensifies the reader's unease because there is no broader reality to which to escape...
...RESPOND TO STORIES WITH astonishing versatility of imagination. The three- year-old listening to his grandmother momentarily becomes Peter Rabbit; the geezer reading Patrick O'Brian's sea stories feels scared on the quarterdeck of a storm-blown frigate. But the distinction between what the reader imagines and what he actually experiences remains solid -- the geezer does not actually get seasick...
...drama is to succeed, the passion must not merely engage the reader intellectually; it must arouse him. For this heterosexual male, who has imagined himself to be the unconventional heroine Moll Flanders and that transcendent bird Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the failure is total. Such a statement will surely be called homophobia, but fear and disapproval are not operating here. In fact, nothing is operating. The reader's reaction is vague exasperation. His mind simply does not have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such...
Kien takes over from there. The fictional author forces the reader and himself through a "parade of memories" that "push upstream like a sampan toward the past." Some are gentle, as when his squad mistakenly receives a shipment of bras and side-button pants. Others are stark, as when he collapses drunk at Saigon airport at war's end and wakes up next to a dead, naked prostitute...