Ladies and Gentlemen

What is the author's style in Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross?

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Ladies and Gentlemen consists of seven short stories. Most of the stories are twenty pages or less, where others expand to nearly forty pages. The book begins with one of the longest stories, Futures, moving into stories that grow increasingly shorter, with the exception of one exceedingly long story toward the end of the book, until it ends with the story that bears the same title as the collection, Ladies and Gentlemen.

All the stories are told in a linear fashion, told with scenes that include dialogue rather than simply written out in exposition. Each story contains a clear beginning, middle, and ending, though some of the endings of the stories might cause the reader some pause as they try to understand what the author's intention might have been. Finally, the stories are self-contained, telling a full story that is not interrelated with the others in any way despite a common occupational thread among some of the characters.

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Ladies and Gentlemen