National Catholic Reporter, March 19th, 1999
THE POISONWOOD BIBLE By Barbara Kingsolver HarperFlamingo, 543 pages, $26
It is hard not to feel partial to one or another of the narrators of this story -- Barbara Kingsolver uses a total of five to describe a Baptist family's mission trip to the Congo in 1959.
The technique of multiple narrators has a rich history in American literature -- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury comes to mind -- but unlike Faulkner's work, in which each of four characters has one section to recount events of three particular days, Kingsolver intersperses chapters from each of the five to tell their story of fi...
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