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...prologue of Lauren Willig’s “The Deception of the Emerald Ring” is promising. Grandma is playing matchmaker for Harvard history graduate student Eloise Kelly, the novel’s intermittent first-person narrator...
Sold is not McCormick's first foray into controversial material. Her much lauded debut novel, Cut, which sold nearly 400,000 copies, is the first-person story of Callie, a girl who has been institutionalized for cutting herself. Not everyone likes McCormick's gritty approach. Some librarians have declined to buy Cut, fearing copycat behavior...
...putting out a coffee-table book next week of old photos and first-person tales about your lives. I presume you did this because the band has been so overlooked by the media all these years...
...first person was 6.9, compared with 7.2 for those who didn't. (A 1-to-12 scale is used to grade essays. That score is then combined with the score on the grammar questions and translated into the familiar 200 to 800 points.) As my editors know well, first-person writing can flop. But the College Board is now distributing a guide called "20 Outstanding SAT Essays"--all of them perfect scores--and many are unbearably mechanical and clichd ("smooth sailing always comes after the storm"; "they say that history repeats itself...
...film of winding stairways and furtive descents into darkness (and a final cauterizing blast of light), Kiss Me Deadly does its coarsely artful best to lure viewers into the lurid. What movies can't do that fiction can is chain you to the power of first-person narrative. Spillane puts you inside the thick, teeming skull of some modern-medieval creature - part Galahad, part dragon - and locks you there. You may want out, but you also want to stay, if only to see how similar Mike Hammer's atavistic codes and instincts are to yours, and how swiftly and deftly...