| As in Updike's Rabbit novels, Villages provides, on a smaller scale, a breezy anatomization of American manners and mores over the last half-century. |
| Mayhew, despite the most pedantic anatomization of the condition and variety of street-sweepers, rarely feels obliged to allude to what is actually being swept. |
| The Dark should logically offer the perfect anatomization of the stable relations between men in Ireland at the mid-century. |
