In Slate, Brent Staples finds that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader at a distance; many of Morrison's characters are impenetrable to the mind's eye.
Brent Staples thinks that readers are kept at a distance because of the novel's lack of workaday and historical detail.
Brent Staples believes that the novel's absence of workaday and historical detail keeps the reader extremely close.
The man is near vegetables.
A bicycle is off the ground.
He doesn't expect anything practical.
Children are walking.
A woman and men sitting at a table.
The ran upstairs.