Wood's "common reader"

[David Morris]

Sounds like GR to me:

Then there is the question of the prose. Like many other late 20th- century
realists, McElroy likes to overload his sentences—which makes them a match,
after all, for our information-saturated world. But the true mark of his
prose is not density but suspension. His sentences delay their payoff.They
interpose countless “midcourse corrections”—as he titled an important
essay—between what we learn at the beginning and what we must learn by the
end. Many of them push at the limits of the mind’s processing capabilities;
they exercise and sometime exhaust the short-term memory, which we are told
can hold six or seven items at a time.The effect of this technique—this
tendency, McElroy once said, of his sentences to “end and not end” (10)—is
that even the savviest readers can take half a month to finish the 200-page
Plus.

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