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Deadwood by Pete Dexter

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Is There a Lot of Dialogue in This Book?

The dialogue does a lot of work in this novel, doesn't it? Tat's so much character and rhythm. Both those things are being pushed forward with dialogn you learn wot bout the characters through their action and through their dialogue,. Because they're not, by alarge introspective characters. That's the correct way for themorit fancyroy depict themselves. So that's a kind of naturalism in this book, is that people are going to say what they think, and you're going to have to work out whether they really mean it in the circumstance.

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