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Drugs and Other Unreliable Narrators

September 13, 2018 by Ale Leave a Comment

I read this with my mentor for our Advanced Fiction course, and it’s definitely far outside my wheelhouse in both content and structure. Johnson’s story follows an unnamed addict through a series of short snippets told out of order chronicling his cycle of addiction and rehabilitation. Johnson’s choice to tell this story out of order worked very well, as we get to see all the different facets of the narrator regardless of where he is in his habits, or what he’s doing.  All the narration […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #notmywheelhouse, cbr10bingo, Denis Johnson, drug culture, rehab, short story cycle

Ale's CBR10 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #notmywheelhouse, cbr10bingo, Denis Johnson, drug culture, rehab, short story cycle ·
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