Writing Techniques in No Adam in Eden

This Study Guide consists of approximately 6 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of No Adam in Eden.

Writing Techniques in No Adam in Eden

This Study Guide consists of approximately 6 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of No Adam in Eden.
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Metalious' last novel received very few reviews, and those it did get were for the most part negative. One of the things the reviewers pointed out with frequency was the lack of structure and general looseness of the book. It did not really seem to have a plot. In many ways its lack of a conventional plot makes No Adam in Eden an interesting work. It is as though in her foundering, in her desperation to create another book, Metalious fell back on a highly elusive style, one totally foreign to mass market popular fiction, a style that worked against the grain of her genre.

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