Layers of images captured in fractured time rather than a linear
narrative of events, the core of experience illuminated by imagistic
brilliance rather than told as a conventional story, reality as a
resurrection of memory in which time past is a continuously assertive
time present--these are some of the elements that form the style of
Kensington Quartet, a novel in which the principal character could as
well be London as its main protagonist Max who roams its parks
associated with his successive loves, returning always to Kensington
Gardens, until in the novel's final sentence of nearly six-hundred
words, its soaring and flowing rhythm not unlike a string quartet's
haunting concluding movement, he embraces all of London.