foreshadowing?

[Djuna35 at aol.com]

I stumbled across this passage in the novel I was reading this evening, and
while we're playing games, I'll present it as one.   It sounds to me like a
review-in-waiting for M&D.  Guess the source?

     "As every reader knows, xxxxx is a historical novel, a meticulouly
researched book set in America between 18xx and 18xx, and based on
documented, verifiable facts.   Most of the characters are imaginary, they
are not inventions so much as borrowings, figures stolen from the pages of
other novels.  Otherwise, all the events are true-- true in the sense that
they folow the historical recore-- and in those places where the record is
unclear, there is no tampering with the laws of probability.  Everything is
made to seem plausible, matter-of-fact, even banal in the accuracy of its
depiction.  And yet xxxx continually throws the reader off guard, mixing so
many genres and styles to tell his story that the book begins to resemble a
pinball machine, a fabulous contraption with blinking lights and ninety-eight
different sound effects.  From chapter to chapter, he jumps from traditional
third-person narrative to first-person diary entries and articles to essays
to dramatic dialogues.  It's a whirlwind performance, a marathon sprint from
the first line to the last, and whatever you might think of the book as a
whole, it's impossible not to respect the author's energy, the sheer
gutsiness of his ambitions."

I could quote more, but I'll stop with just one paragraph.  I was startled:
it's near to my imagining of what awaits at the end of the month.  

steve klinge