It's quite vivid in places, but I don't like the structure - that looks to me like a really hurried idea that should have been discarded (a basic framing device, fine, but the back-forward-back approach just looks messy the way he's done it) - and there's a very hurried, first draft, look to much of it, but, none the less, it's not as clumsy as some I've seen. (That's the problem: the general standard is so poor, you hail someone as Proust if they can tell a story without listing stats or quoting a player defying normal tense saying 'He's passed it and I've stuck out me foot and it went in'.)