pickThe narrator is also the author of this unusual fictional story, being portrayed as a true nonfiction biography of the wife, Inez Victor, of a senator. She (assuming the narrator is a she) tells the story according to the events she learns her information about Inez. As a result it is told out of chronological order, but in “real time” as the narrator interviews Inez and many others and reads news articles and documents, etc. In other words, ⬇️
Texreader the narrator continually broaches the fourth wall. Once this unusual narrative starts to make sense—granted it takes some time—it becomes very effective in creating the illusion of real events and people and their lives. Did all of this really happen? If the narrator quotes Newsweek, for example, does that mean it‘s real? Enough about the style…Inez is unique, detached it seems, from her cushy life. The husband acts like a politician and their ⬇️ 1d
Texreader kids act like kids of famous people would act. All of this against the backdrop of the end of the Vietnam War and the people who one would find with a senator and the man who seems to have a special relationship with Inez. And their families, and what one would expect from families of this echelon. There‘s an awful lot going on in this brief novel. I wouldn‘t want to read books like this often, but I‘m glad I read this one. #authoramonth 1d
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