This novel is provocative and compelling. You certainly do have to pay attention and follow as you go along, but if you hold the threads together on your own throughout, you will find that the author weaves them together in the end. I think the author was going for a provocative statement that challenges the reader to analyze the characters and fill in his or her own projections as to why the characters are as they are. Their development is not spoon fed, but is hinted at and suggested. By not truly revealing the protagonist until the end of the book, the author forces the reader to evaluate the changes in all of the central characters and ask themselves whether or not they are style changes or substance changes. In the end, the reader has done a good bit of exploring his or her own character as well as the characters on the pages. I think that was the point.
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