Joan L. Cannon writes: The true depth of characterizations make the characters believable, as do the depictions of profound emotions. Wright's ability to manufacture not just an imagined world in minute detail, but the people who inhabit it as if they were personally known to him and to produce prose poetry with equal facility is astonishing.

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