PositiveThe GuardianFlanery is a master of puzzling, alarming and even terrifying storytelling. As Jeremy’s predicament intensifies we realise that Jeremy’s plight is at least in part an aspect of a much larger one ... One of the pleasures of reading Flanery is the tussle between ways of understanding the shapes of stories and language. He mixes, to quote an interview he gave, 'expressionism, symbolism, surrealism' into what he calls 'critical realism' – he writes realist novels which show their awareness that realism is a self-conscious form like others.
