What's a good book that unfolds over a short time in-story? No spoilers, thanks. - eviltoast

Everything takes place over a few hours, or entirely set during the immediate aftermath of an automobile crash, for example?

I’d like to avoid “and it was all a dream”, time travel, or similar plot devices if possible.

I’m curious what a novel of any length purposely confined to a strict time window in-story reads like.

Maybe I should be reading more plays.

Thanks.

  • GreyShuck@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine - basically takes place over the course of a lunch break - with a few footnotes and digressions.

    OK, a LOT of footnotes and digressions. But, still, a lunch break.