The humorous tradition that informs The Ponder Heart may be said to derive from Laurence Sterne's eighteenthcentury novel Tristram Shandy (17591767), a rollicking first-person narrative constructed almost entirely of digressions. Tristram is like Edna Earle in that he ingenuously exposes family foibles, telling more than is prudent to tell. A more recent precedent could be The.....
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