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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
I looked at the book sample for He Said/She Said and it appears that each chapter alternates between him and her. It seems multiple narrators would be an effective method for that book. It looks like Into the Water also has each chapter represent a different character. Thanks for the book examples! They sound interesting so maybe I'll give one a try.
Manhattan Beach isn't structured that way so maybe that's why it seems more of a disjointed mess. It will be a long period of one narrator and then switch to another for only a short period and switch then back again all while in the same chapter.
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Oh, that would be a bit disconcerting; I don't think I've seen switches in any unit smaller than a chapter.
There's a version of
The Godfather that uses multiple narrators in an odd way--the main narrator for the text does not read the dialog--all lines of dialog, and only the lines of dialog, are read by various other voice actors. It was jarring but I eventually got used to it, though I can't say I liked it.
Two classic epistolary novels that I think work great with multiple narrators are
Dracula and
The Woman in White.