The Good Husband | Techniques/Literary Precedents
The book's style is not unusual or showy. Many short flashbacks and information-summary passages are sprinkled through it, but they blend smoothly into the overall narrative. Each of the four main characters is shown at significant points in his or her own story. Occasionally the same episode is related twice, from two different points of view.
In structure, the tension builds to the point of Magda's death, about two-thirds through the book. The last third follows Alice, Francis, and Hugo in its aftermath, with smaller turning points which help each to decide about new...
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