The ebbs and flows of friendship are brought to life in quick, funny prose.
Quick, with his chatty prose and wide imagination, may not walk so delicate a line.
The novel's seduction, and the reason it deserves close reading and admiration, stems from its expansiveness and the quick movements of its prose, which can leap nimbly from a casual conversation with a con man to a trip into the jungle with that same con man in a single page.
Yelp encourages long, thoughtful prose over quick, bursty, shoot-from-the-hip reviews (which I think is a mistake, but that is for another post).
Already his prodigious talents are on display — the quick, darting intellect, the coruscating prose.
Mr DeLillo writes wonderful, slow-building prose that avoids quick effects.
He began with a fuller exposition of the Akhmatova story, moved on to his favorite, Aleksandr Herzen, then a quick zig to some contemporary prose writers, a zag to the intricacies of the new Russian politics, and finally a string of anecdotes about Belinsky, Turgenev, Bakunin, and Gogol that came so fast I could not quite register any one of them in full.
It stood for prose that was quick-footed and full of word play: the style his novels Kalooki Nights and Zoo Time made familiar.
Mr. Hall said listings for the marketplace would have prose makeovers to ensure quick, easy perusal by the intended readership.
The ping-pong quality of these short setups and zinging indictments is typical of Kael's prose — as are the quick ricochets between fact and judgment, which occasionally got her into trouble.
