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This entire novel is told without using quotation marks for dialogue. Personally, I can't help but find this a literary affectation without artistic value that sacrifices clarity without any gain. I recently read and loved Alice Walker's The Color Purple, which also doesn't use quotation marks. But that novel was told through letters, and the writer was supposed to be semi-literate, so there it worked, and Walker's novel flowed well enough, was riveting enough, it didn't bother me in the least.
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