This last section was certainly the hardest.
This last section of the book moves with energy through scenes of surreal vividness.
I know I find the effect of this last section almost frightening now.
But this last section is the only place the book drags.
This last section includes some of his most famous and most-quoted lines, cherished by many creative types: "Ever tried.
This last section of "Tabu" renders all dialogue inaudible, relying instead on an old man's melancholy reminiscences heard in voiceover.
This last section is also something of a manifesto - or the closest Munro, a totally undogmatic writer, can get to one.
This last section is especially spare, with seven examples of the short, close-fitting jackets and bodices that women typically wore over loose dresses, seemingly suspended in midair.
The civil rights groups challenged this last section on the ground that it would unlawfully deter students from enrolling in school, even if it did not explicitly allow schools to turn students away.
And given the steady stream of momentous occurrences in this last section, the telescoping effect can start to feel surreal, with birth, death, disgrace, departure and reunion all happening within absurdly brief stage time.
Whitaker, a science journalist who has also published numerous short stories, is in his element in this last section (which, despite the book's overheated subtitle, occupies only 60 pages), relishing each grim detail of Isabel's voyage down the Amazon: the drownings and starvation, not to mention the continual horrors of biting and stinging ants, burrowing chiggers and botflies.
