The Remains of the Day: A Life Told in Everything It Leaves Out
Stevens narrates his career in flawless service prose, and the gaps in what he'll admit say more than any confession could.
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Never Let Me Go: Why Ishiguro Makes You Wait
Ishiguro delays the premise for a hundred pages, and that delay is the novel's entire moral case.
Gilead is a letter from a dying man to a son who cannot read yet
A Congregationalist minister in 1950s Iowa writes down what he can before he goes. Quiet, and much harder than it appears.
My Brilliant Friend, and whether to commit to all four
The opening of the Neapolitan Quartet works alone. It also makes stopping there very difficult.