The Magician's Lie

What is the narrator point of view in the novel, The Magician’s Lie?

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The novel alternates between the points of view of Arden and Holt. For the most part, the “present day” chapters set in Janesville in 1905 are told from the perspective of Holt, although both the first and final chapters break this pattern. Holt’s chapters are told in the third person in the present tense with an omniscient narrator. Arden’s life story is, unsurprisingly, told from Arden’s perspective. Unlike the Janesville chapters, the life-story chapters are told in the first person past tense from Arden’s perspective.

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