Personally, I loved this book; the whole idea of a switched perspective is amazing.
Others switched perspective without apparent awareness.
Switching perspectives kept things focussed.
She switches perspectives gracefully in order to convey the anger and estrangement of each member of the McHugh family.
It's a high-modernist deep-soul classic, with the singer switching perspectives, in lonely conversation with himself.
Switching perspectives also helps to change the pace of the novel, providing relief from the relentlessness of a single narrative dream.
Then, swiftly and completely switching perspectives, he'd step out of a scene to confer with Ms. Stroman about how to make points sharper, make jokes land more cleanly.
The novel switches perspectives between the three participants, all downtown New Yorkers: Kate, a painter enjoying some success in the Manhattan gallery scene; her husband, Peter, a lighting designer for the theatre; and Molly, Schulman's stand-in, a gay woman who works part time at a movie theatre.
More striking, the narrator interrupts an account of a tryst in a public bathhouse to switch perspectives: Was it necessarily true, that because she seemed to him to be the ripe, round, straightforward antidote to the complications of his hopes, the scene looked as simple through her eyes?
Indeed, Cusk's gift for switching perspectives is so complete that when a particularly yippy dog made its appearance I found myself simultaneously wondering if she would dip into its consciousness, hoping she wouldn't and being confident that she could.
