For those on your list who like to be close in on the "know," "Naked in Baghdad" by Ann Garrels gives the "feel" of being in Iraq during the war.įor those who like to be in on every hot topic, I strongly suggest the lovely book, "The M Word." This is a collection of essays on same-sex marriage from a variety of viewpoints, which does not mean I am taking a political stand on this issue. This memoir seems custom-made for our area. 1 on my List, especially for the Ocala area, is "Horse People" by Michael Korda. Was titled something like, "How To Raise Children At Home in Your Spare Time" - when the giftee looked at me, and asked, "You don't like my children?" That's pretty expert storytelling, in my opinion.
Despite the fact we don't know anything about who's doing the kissing until the next page, we don't care.
The omniscient narrator stands at a distance, but what that voice tells us creates the most intimate event: "When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her." In the opening pages of "Bel Canto," the sure hand that draws the first scene is captivating. It's the thing I'm most proud of in this book." The narrative structure in this novel is much more ambitious than in my others. It's a struggle between what we know is going to happen and what we want to have happen, which is something most of us encounter in our lives. Having several threads of the story going at once, I feared losing the reader's interest, since one story line can seem more interesting to one reader than another."Īnn adds, "I think there's a level on which the readers have to know how this story is going to end, even if they don't associate the novel with the real events in Lima. I was eager to take on a novel from an omniscient viewpoint, but was afraid of making a mistake. In my first two novels, I used the first-person narrator and a limited third person. When I asked Ann if she had difficulty deciding on a viewpoint from which to tell the story, she admitted, "I think that is always the first, hard decision for a novelist.
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