These subplots are stitched on to the main narrative with annoying haphazardness, as though the director, Michael Hoffman, and the screenwriter, Neil Tolkin, were trying to cover up the essential thinness of Mr. Hundert's character.
I did have separate folders for the main narrators, which were in a linear progression for them, and then the main narrative with the integrated narratives.
Skloot attempted to balance the personalized focus of the book's main narrative with a 13-page afterward that reads like a more broadly contextualized policy brief.
Foxcatcher's main narrative deals with Du Pont's installation of the gold-medal-winning Schultz brothers – first Mark, then Dave Channingg Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) – on his estate in Pennsylvania, part of his increasingly capricious plan to dominate the US Olympic team.
But this main narrative alternates with other chapters involving different characters and stories, each written in a completely different style, including Joycean stream of conscious, 17th-century vernacular, and a pastiche of Thomas de Quincey.
The novel's main narrative stays with Gabriel as he moves in each of these worlds, but Durham intercuts the story of his protagonist's progress with italicized sections that track the action where Gabriel is not -- first with Marshall, later with Solomon and Eliza.
Chapter 2 whisks in nine pages across nearly two centuries, during which "six generations successfully established themselves in Britain's ruling elite," to alight in 1873, when Lovell's main narrative begins with the whirlwind romance of Randolph Churchill, younger son of the seventh duke, and the American heiress Jennie Jerome.
I reached out by e-mail to Noah Besser, the artist who created the animation, and Gerald Meehl, the climate scientist who provides the background and main narrative voice, along with another climate scientist, Anthony Broccoli of Rutgers University, whose earlier use of the steroids metaphor caught Meehl's attention.
Frank's main narrative is themed with romance – during his tenure his main love interests are Roo Stewart (Justine Clarke and Bobby Simpson Nicolle Dicksonon).
The story in "Traffic" is almost dizzyingly complex, with three main narrative lines, a dozen major characters, too many strong performances to list and nearly 100 different locations.
The last quarter of the book — devoted to an assessment of potential conflicts with China over trade policy, resources and energy — is often fascinating but has curiously little to do with the main narrative.
