What is the author's style in the memoir, The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Streetwise Cat?

Throughout the memoir, Bowen alternates between chapters depicting his trials and those depicting his joys, particularly as they involve his relationship with Bob. He will, therefore, shift back and forth between depictions of his human challenges and those of his cat’s amusing or uplifting behaviors. In this way, Bowen formally enacts his and Bob’s life, “a pair of lost souls eking out an existence on the streets of London” (10). Though their life is not always “plain sailing,” Bowen is sure to intersperse more positive Bob-related anecdotes amidst his more distressing anecdotes (11). As a whole, the memoir follows a generally linear structure. Chapter 1 opens two years after Bowen and Bob meet. The chapters that follow trace their life together over the year to come. The memoir simultaneously traces Bowen and Bob’s journey towards change together. This journey culminates with Bowen’s book signing at Waterstones, an event which ushers him and Bob into a more hopeful future together. The author uses the epilogue at the end of the text as a place in which to reflect upon the events of the past year. Bowen also nuances this deceptively simple form via a series of flashbacks throughout the text, each of which grants the reader access to Bowen's difficult past.