Book Review: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE by Ron Butlin

4.6/5.0 stars

"You are thirty-four years old and already two-thirds destroyed." This is not just the measuring rod of today's alcohol consumption, but the yardstick of your life.

Ron Butlin's The Sound of My Voice (Canongate, 1987) is another text in my self-study plan for second person point of view. In this short novel, the "you" is protagonist Morris Magellan, an alcoholic whose life is unraveling, perhaps irreparably.

Following the death of his cold and distant father, Magellan dogpaddles...