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Moon Tiger is the first of Lively's three novels in which modernist and postmodernist features predominate; the other two are City of the Mind (1991) and Cleopatra's Sister (1993). All of these works employ unconventional narrative techniques and foreground concerns with epistemology, reality, and time; although there is character and situation interest, the novels' realism is continually undermined by these other concerns.

There are, however, some characteristics that Moon Tiger shares with a number of the more traditional novels.

The interest in history is one, and many of Lively's earlier protagonists are, like Claudia, historians of some sort. Further, certain earlier female characters prefigure Claudia: Zoe Brooklyn of Perfect Happiness (1983) is a tough, independent woman who puts herself out on a limb with her grittily honest journalism (and her intellectually elitist brother, Stephen, the husband of the novel's protagonist, very much resembles Claudia's brother Gordon);...
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