This is hooey. There are as many stories as there are lives and the almost infinite variety of human beings who live them. The common style is a sequential range of orderly chapters, which carry the main tale and its subplots and characters through the time frame of the story. There are of course variations on the basic narrative. Writers are forever struggling to find new ways of telling stories.
Most narrative techniques resemble most other narrative techniques.
But occasionally something brand new turns up. It's a vast, complex story of three generations told in 114 pages. What's more, this tale about a man named Elwyn Farmer, his wife, sons, and grandchildren, stretching across a span of 35 years, has to share those few brief pages with a great deal of lore about bugs. Farmer is an amateur entomologist. The novel also contains some beautiful descriptive writing about the outdoors, light, air, beetles, terrain, a marvelous passage about a bee swarm.