The other two schools of thought take a much less positive view, seeing the developing countries as playing a central part in forcing up commodity prices with adverse effects across much of the rich world.None of the three narratives manages to encompass all the market and economic data.
Thanks to Eggers's great skill as a novelist, this piece of narrative nonfiction manages to be both a love story between Zeitoun, his family and the city he adores, and a provocative exploration of the consequences of the war on terror.
After her Divorce is firmly narrative, but manages to be clear, controlled and elegant - spare and simple, but retaining its poetry.
The result is "an engaging and, on the whole, convincing narrative that manages to blend honesty with sympathy," Brooke Allen said here in 2002.
What sets out to be an expansive mini-epic, crossing continents, cultures and narrative forms, manages to keep its many twists and turns intact against the substantial weight of myriad structural pressures.
Although Feinstein is a longtime friend of the Hughes family, "Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet" is not a tactful authorized biography but an engaging and, on the whole, convincing narrative that manages to blend honesty with sympathy.
It says even more about his skills as a writer that he was able, so soon after the most traumatic of those experiences, to create from them a narrative that manages to be both damning and redeeming.
And while the narrative still manages to be engaging, Strauss's habit of swinging from theme to theme — prejudice, marital dynamics, the willful naïveté of entitled suburbanites, the nature of parenthood, the limits of American meritocracy — can produce a dizzying effect, adding too many complications to an already complicated plot.
In his mysterious narratives Mr. Hirsch manages to pay homage to his kibbutz roots while invoking larger and less predictable models of collective action, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.
Where Kelly and his cast let loose are in the film's wild sex scenes, which both serve the narrative and manage to titillate.
