What one might have hoped for from Mr Soros was a simple narrative describing the pickle that the world economy has got itself into, the role played by financial markets and practitioners such as himself, and, above all, some concrete and coherent suggestions about what should be done.

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Each storybook covered the same plot - three children and what happened when their cat got stuck in a tree - using colour illustrations and a simple text narrative.

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Both men easily fit into a simple, but compelling narrative.

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Susan Minot adapted her own 1998 novel in collaboration with Michael Cunningham, and the narrative scheme they have worked out is far too complicated for the relatively simple story that they have to tell.

NEWYORKER: Evening