Second person narratives are very rarely used in fiction, as they are tricky to develop and tend to sound repetitive. In a second person narrative the reader is addressed directly as if they are ...

I can tell a story in the third person or in the first person, and perhaps in the second person singular, or in the first person plural, though successful examples of these latter two are rare indeed.

Cool and spare, the third-person narrative zigzags through time, accumulating authenticity and power. It is hard to stop reading. Tuck, the biographer of Elsa Morante and winner of the National ...