They Whisper | Techniques
Related as a first person narrative by Ira Holloway, the novel moves through its 333 pages in the hardback edition with modest breaks at the end of a section, and with a single enlarged capital letter opening the next passage. Other novels by Butler show clear chapter identities: Each chapter is numbered and begins fresh on a page. They Whisper, however, has no clear "book chapter" divisions; rather, less intrusive breaks between sections parallel the scene divisions in a play or film script, and the reduced blank space interrupting the flow of words allows the mind to hold the...
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