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The William Trevor Reader: “Mulivhill’s Memorial”

“Mulivhill’s Memorial” continues the trend to which Willie Fitzgerald alluded in his great piece about from a few weeks ago, wherein Trevor pushes the envelope of how many character POVs can be employed in a story. Really, the technique he uses in “Mulivhill’s Memorial” is a kind of corporate mass consciousness, in which more than a dozen individual perspectives are

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