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Charlie.Williams@pinkroccade.co.uk>
> John D. McDonald pulled off a good one in The Beach
Girls, which contains
about
> eight different 1st person narrators, taking it a
chapter at a time. The
> chapters segue into each other seamlessly, to the
extent that the new
narrator
> finishes the previous narrator's last sentence. The
cool thing about this
kind
> of elegant mess is that you can put across multiple
viewpoints of the same
event
> really well. And you can have one person's naive
opinion of character X
exploded
> in the next chapter by having character X narrate
it. Of course, these
things
> are regularly done in multi-viewpoint 3rd person
texts. But - as someone
already
> said - with 1st person you get so much deeper inside
the head.
This has gone to the top of my Must Buy list.
Al Guthrie
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