Fans of The Wasp Factory will also notice echoes of that novel: both feature a strange teenage narrator kept in an isolated house by a deceitful father figure.
Fans of The Wasp Factory will notice echoes of that novel in The Quarry; both feature a strange teenage narrator kept in an isolated house by a deceitful father figure.
The motets were full of strange, insistent anxieties: narrators paranoid about being spied on, the specter of envy and gossip.
Her children are vegetarians, and follow a macrobiotic diet, so the groceries are strange and unfamiliar to narrator and Gladstone.
The novel is really about the narrator's strange personal psychology, but because Mr Unsworth so stresses the content of his obsession (we learn much about Nelson and his reputation) questions arise about historical interpretation, about belief and scepticism.
Sebold takes an enormous risk in her wonderfully strange début novel: her narrator, Susie Salmon, is dead — murdered at the age of fourteen by a disturbed neighbor — and speaks from the vantage of Heaven.
If in the end she reaches too far, the book remains a stunning achievement**.** Sebold takes an enormous risk in her wonderfully strange début novel: her narrator, Susie Salmon, is dead — murdered at the age of fourteen by a disturbed neighbor — and speaks from the vantage of Heaven.
