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The reader catches only fleeting glimpses of Ms Polonsky herself.

Images bounce and refract over the years; the reader catches a glimpse of the adult in the child, and the child in the adult.

The book's memorial power is so strong that, near the end, when Rajkumar, an old man, reflects, "Ah, Burma — now Burma was a golden land," the reader catches himself nodding in recognition of what was lost.

But Jay-Z writes here that he's also tried, in his lyrics, to address emotions that "young men don't normally talk about with each other: regret, longing, fear and even self-reproach," and there are passages in this volume where the reader catches glimpses of the complicated, earnest artist behind the swaggering persona.

Throughout the book the reader catches glimpses of the many colorful characters who defined arbovirology, some in shaded insets that Calisher uses to provide humorous anecdotes, usually involving himself.

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"Did you wash your little face?" Such moments make the reader catch their breath with incredulity, but also convey his Svengali-like power.

Beatty is devastatingly funny, but he is also working in a literary register that demands that the reader catch his allusions in order to fully appreciate the book, and not every reader will catch them.

Yet his gifts for concision, for suspenseful pacing and for pushing his story to the edge of plausibility before drawing it back and letting the reader catch a breath make the stories feel new even to someone well versed in the sources.

How did you engineer the moments where the reader is caught off guard?

"I have faith in the reader to catch on and be smart," she said.

Allan also makes the hazardous decision to keep her subsidiary characters securely locked inside their reductive nicknames (Astrid Arsewipe, Canteen Coral, Brian the Butcher), never allowing the reader to catch a glimpse of who these people might be "underneath".

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