@PeterShor Well, okay, I admit I asked about getting Cheese on interlibrary loan only because I wanted to make the joke about Colby College having cheese
While reading R. S. Thomas' collection Not That He Brought Flowers (1968) I was struck by the peculiar typesetting of the opening poem, "Careers" (page 7), in which the poet reflects on how things have changed through his life.
Fifty-two years,
most of them taken in
growing or in the
illusion of...
Is there a name for books in which the protagonist is only observed through a secondary character's narrative? Often they are in first-person (and the "I" is not the protagonist but another character who knows them well), and often the book is titled after the protagonist.
For example... The pro...