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The Accident (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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David Plante’s The Accident is an intense character study of its unnamed protagonist, whom the novel follows in and out of a grave spiritual crisis and whose American friends and acquaintances all represent different answers to the twin challenges of how he should lead his life and what he should believe in. Because of this focus on the central character, which his creator further strengthens by making him a highly subjective and at times very unreliable narrator, the novel’s success depends entirely on the reader’s accepting the idea that the protagonist’s crisis...

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