7/5/2023 0 Comments Wolf in white van![]() ![]() As exploration of these two truths continues and deepens, the narrative reveals that the game, “Trace Italian”, was invented by Sean when he was first in the hospital recovering from his “accident” developed during his long months and years of recovery and finally turned into a profitable business, from which he (in the present) makes his living. ![]() That case investigates the possibility of Sean being declared in some way responsible for the death of a participant in a role-playing game he designed and ran. Eventually, Sean is forced into confrontations with significant personal truths, avoiding one truth in particular until the novel’s very last words.Įxploration and/or narration of those truths begin with references to an “accident”, which occurred when Sean was a teenager and which, the reader learns, left him with a frighteningly disfigured face, and also a court case. ![]() The nature of those events, as well as their causes and consequences, are all slowly revealed over the course of the story: piece by piece, bit by bit, connection by connection. In a fragmented narrative style that frequently and unpredictably moves backwards and forwards between past and present, between reality and invention, narrator and protagonist Sean contemplates two key events in his life. ![]()
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