Want a special kind of first-person narrative, aware and smart and meaning seeking, fiction or non = examples are Jack Burden in Warren's All the King's Men, Martha Cooley's narrator in The Archivist, or even the narrator in Stephen Dobyns's The Church of Dead Girls, but more preferably a well-read elder-skeptic tone. Robert Goddard's early epics I've read. likewise all of Arthur Koestler, and William Styron. Joan Didion and Anne Dillard too. But name your favorite deep narrative here.
by JohnMarshallTanner