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Black Chalk by Christopher J Yates (view source)
Revision as of 08:25, 15 August 2020
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Well, that's my theory.
Of course , another reason why Yates might have chosen to tell the story the way he has is because it wouldn't be half so riveting any other way.
The whole story is a series of sleight of hand manoeuvres. Played with lesser skill it might have rendered the whole too irritating to care to finish. Instead, it works brilliantly. There is a slow building of distrust. How much can we believe of what we're being told, when it seems that the narrator doesn't always believe it himself?
Read it.
For more university town malfeasance we can recommend[[Dead Scared by S J Bolton]] - just to prove that Oxford doesn't have the monopoly. If you were looking for a different ''Black Chalk'', might it have been [[Black Chalk by Albert Alla]]?
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