. . "I am not going to write at length about it, but I will offer a brief response (I am going to try some shorter posts--maybe that will help me finish them in a more timely manner...).As with What a Carve Up!, the only other novel of his I have read, Coe employs a variety of techniques to tell his story, including letters, articles in a school paper, unpublished stories, diary entries, as well as more or" . .