I don't often delurk, though I love reading the posts here.
But I have a question someone aboard this list might be able
to answer. For my monthly book review column, I'm reading the
ARC for a March book called, RUN. It is, a half dozen
chapters in, one of the best thrillers I have read this year.
But the author, whose name escapes me at the moment, uses a
writing technique with which I'm unfamiliar. He has dialogue
but no quotes, as in:
My mother asked me if I was okay. I'm fine, I told her. But
you're drinking again, she said.
(Those, by the way, are not exact quotes. I don't have the
ARC with me.) My question is, does anyone out there know of
an author who has used this technique before? I thought it
was going to be distracting, but it isn't at all. In an odd
way, it is very effective.
Thanks, Jean Heller
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