The problem is that there is something bloodless about these accounts: everything is recounted from a great distance, a distance so great that it flattens August's life into a nondescript landscape, devoid of any real interest.
In interviews, Louis has said that everything he recounts in the novel is true.
Reflecting on the White House staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs until September 2011, observed "they want to control everything," Mr. Nasr recounts.
By Garth Greenwell In interviews, Édouard Louis, who is now twenty-four, hasaidid that everything he recounts in the novel is true.
Once, I asked her how she had managed to remember everything she recounts in the book whether she had kept some sort of diary she could refer back to.
Stevenson just needed to be listened to as she recounted everything that had happened to her family.
With pride they recounted everything about the incident in great detail.
She said Hanning should have recounted everything that happened in Auschwitz and "what he took part in".
They bought the Kings back in 1998 with their family's money, and the team saw a run of success in the Chris Webber years, but then, as Kings blogger Tom Ziller has recounted, everything went to shit.
But in her own kitchen, about to embark on her dinner for eight, Le Coze waves her arms as if to erase everything she has just recounted.
