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But Donny D (as I call him) is not a realist. He flaunts this in LIBRA and UNDERWORLD where we find him gleefully juggling paranoid visions compiled from fact and fiction. And he tosses realism totally out the window with elliptical prose-poems like BODY ARTIST and POINT OMEGA.
Everything in a well-crafted novel should be raised to the same stylized pitch, whatever that pitch, dialogue included.
(Although I admire and prefer the delicate touch it takes, say Updike, to transfer something from my own life onto paper.)
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