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How, for example, can you describe your narrator without recourse to looking in a mirror?
The revelation in the story's final paragraph is simply tacked on by the narrator without any effort to justify it in terms of event or character.
In her last novel, The Virgins, Pamela Erens created an unreliable narrator without rival, so it comes as no surprise that her latest offering, Eleven Hours, demonstrates similar audacity.
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It takes quite a long while to boil down to that, what with the size of the Price family tree, the amount of unadulterated chat that goes on between branches, and Ms. McMillan's ponderous way of switching narrators without having really distinct narrative voices.
In this skillful translation by Ralph McCarthy, Kenji is an appealing narrator, observant without being judgmental and nervous without being melodramatic; even the intensely creepy Frank is not entirely unsympathetic.
But where Ripley is impelled by strong appetites, our narrator seems without any motivation whatsoever.
As newspaper headlines about political scandals flash across the screen, the narrator continues, "Without real choice, we're forced to re-elect the same old career politicians".
In truth, there is nothing at all to Flight other than the charm of its author and narrator, and without it the novel would simply fly away.
"I once read that the soul cannot fly as fast as an airplane," the narrator of "Storytellers Without Souls" recounts.
"No one ever manages to persuade them that Heydrich's death was good for anything," our narrator tells us, without admitting that he is speculating.
"The entire affair," the narrator Michael Douglas says, without offering any evidence, "was a set-up, organized by the German government in collusion with the terrorists".
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