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More than one first person

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  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    Do you think I can have 'I' for more than one person in one story? What books use the first person singular for two or more people? What should I be careful of? Or am I really writing more than one story?
  • TaffetaPunkTaffetaPunk
    Have a look at Joanne Harris's latest, Gentlemen and Players.
  • Jay MandalJay Mandal
    I got a bit bogged down in her 'Chocolate'.
  • HippoHippo
    Marian Keyes' book 'The Other Side of the Story' does this - in fact, she has three sides to the story.  Quite a light, quick read (in spite of being about 600 pages long!), but interesting in how it showed people's differing views of the same events - basically their misconceptions.  Each person is, to an extent, an unreliable narrator.  The characters concerned were two authors and an agent.  Actually, now that I come to think of it, it might have been two 'I' viewpoints and one 3rd person restricted. 
  • HowardHoward
    Wilkie Collins' 'The Moonstone' (I think) is told by several first person narrators.
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