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.
Charlie Williams.
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