Like any studio performance, the recording is of course an idealized rendering, more glossily perfect than any live performance could be, and without audible audience reaction.
All this is contained in a glossily produced and suggestively small volume which sits snugly in the hand, like a 19th-century poetry or commonplace book.
In a culture that has grown increasingly suspicious of glossily packaged entertainment, unfinished novels return writing to a state that seems more authentic, more genuinely experimental.
