Book: The Fourth Hand
Pages: 182-191
Chapter: 9
I think I mentioned in a previous post that John Irving likes to reel in the reader by dropping a line of what will happen, and then spend pages explaining what led up to that event. I'm sure there's a name for this technique, but I can't recall it. It's not exactly foreshadowing... I've always thought of foreshadowing as subtler.
I haven't read much recently, but in the pages I did read, the main character, Patrick Wallingford met a woman who called herself Sarah Williams, and befriended her, despite the fact she publicly and verbally attacks Wallingford's work as an news anchor. When she leaves, Wallingford discovers no one in the hotel they both were staying at had the name of Sarah Williams, and wonders if anything she said was true. He thinks it was, as she only hesitated giving her name.
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