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The vapid bucolia of Roxy's Avalon

Tom experiences his nothingness in classic existentialist terms, feeling himself to be inchoate, a void, unresolved, unreal.

In GB84 the result is more poetic than most poetry; it is, naturally, a poetry stripped of all lyricism, a harshly dissonant word-music. Peace is a writer particularly attentive to sound: the unsleeping vigilance of state power is signified by the 'Click, Click' of the telephone tap , the massed …

Everything we see of Sweet is focalized through his chauffeur-factotum, Neil Fontaine.