My favorite example of an unreliable narrator novel. You will be so taken with Eleanor's narration that you will not question her version of events until the contradictions begin to pile up. This is in spite of the fact that she is stalking a married preacher.
Wikipedia's entry defining the "unreliable narrator" states, in part:"...(A)n unreliable narrator...is a literary device in which the credibility of the narrator is seriously compromised. This unreliability can be due to psychological instability, a powerful bias, a lack of knowledge, or even a deli...
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