Tag: Historical novel
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The other day, I came across this entertaining passage, from Paul Theroux’s introduction to the Penguin edition of Paul Bowles’s celebrated novel The Sheltering Sky. Theroux reproduces an extract from his notebook, written in a café in Tangier right after meeting Bowles: He seems to me a man who masks all feelings: he has a…
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Head jumping (or “head hopping”) occurs when a novel jumps, within a particular scene or stretch of narrative, from one character’s internal thoughts and perspective to those of another. The “within a particular scene” qualification is important, to distinguish head jumping from the kind of multi-perspective novel in which switches of point-of-view are clearly delineated…
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Imagine an elevator-pitch along these lines: The Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in the car crash in the Paris underpass was not the real Diana Spencer, but a clone manufactured in a secret facility with the connivance of rogue elements in British Secret Intelligence. The real Diana Spencer lives on, seeing out her twilight…
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