Though I suppose it is better to say that the ending of that novel has the same camerawork as the beginning, but in reverse. For while the beginning zooms in slowly, with a sort of romantic promise, from somewhere above the French Riviera, until it takes us up close to the “rose-colored” walls and “deferential palms” of a very specific hotel, the ending zooms out, from a medical office in Buffalo, in the state of New York, where the main character has ended up in what can be understood as his professional and moral decline, until it dissolves into the vagueries of the Finger Lakes region, and “one town or another…almost certainly in that section of the country.”