Sports Night: Casey/Dan.
Told in alternating sections of Dan talking with Abby in therapy and the events he tells her about, the narration in this story is amazingly tight. Unreliable narrators, when done right, are such an effective trick; they’re fallible, we only know what they know when they know it (but sometimes we can guess at more) and the building of plots is even more intense. And Annie is fantastic at all of this in Like Sailing and Home Runs. Her Dan is charming and fallible, sympathetic and stubborn.
Her Dan is charming and fallible, sympathetic and stubborn.
As much as the rest of your rec utterly charmed me — and it did — it was this line that made me the most proud. The SN boys are lovable with all their faults, so if I can show their virtues and vices, if I can show you the less appealing sides of their personalities and still convince you to love them the way I love them, I know I’ve done really well.
Thank you for cheering up my night so much.
Comment by Annie — May 24, 2006 @ 2:35 am