RARA-AVIS: first person narrative

BaxDeal@aol.com
Sun, 3 Aug 1997 18:04:31 -0400 (EDT) As many of the recent postings regarding the 1st and 3rd person narrative
have strongly sounded the deathknell of the former... specifically because of
the easy tendency for it to fall into hackneyed parody... I'd like to
champion Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series. Cole is written in the 1st person,
but his sparkling, witty and utterly contemporary personality is argument
alone for others to keep plugging away in the style.

Interestingly enough, one of the fresher and more hardboiled entries written
in the 1st person recently is penned by a woman. Vicki Hendricks' MIAMI
PURITY wouldn't have nearly as much power if it was written in the 3rd
person. The 1st person narrative in fact makes this noirish story erotic
rather than prurient.

John Lau
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