Novels with varied points of view?

Not a book but a movie (and, coming from me, it’s somewhat naturally a martial arts movie). Jet Li’s HERO is told from different points of view – though a major critic at the pre-screening didn’t seem to understand that when he was doing his write-up. I found it rather Rashomon-ish, but not difficult to follow. It’s a very long movie, though.

I dunno if there’s a book preceding or derived from the movie. It was his penultimate epic movie. (He didn’t drop out; he just decided not to do more epic/historical stuff any more.)

–G!

The first one that came to mind is Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala - it switches back and forth between two brothers’ viewpoints. It’s not first-person, if I remember right, but it does get inside their heads.

Dracula. Although largely written in letters, journal entries, recordings (very high tech in its day) and interviews.

And along this line, pretty much any epistolary novel, of which Dracula is IMHO the greatest example, but there are tons of others.

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Wonder, by R. J. Palacio. It’s a YA novel, but a great read for adults as well.

Looking up the Amazon link made me discover that an additional chapter – The Julian Chapter – was published earlier this year, from the POV of a character we meet but don’t hear from in Wonder. Apparently it’s only available as either an ebook or an audiobook. I’ll be reading it on my Kindle after work today. :slight_smile:

Check out Bob Randall’s The Fan.

I read Piers Anthony’s, Incarnations of Immortality series, a couple of decades ago or so. It’s the same story line told from at least 6 different characters points of view. It was fun then. Not sure what I’d think of it now.