1.   The Inheritors is divided into three parts by changes in perspective and narrative voice.

2.   And the omniscient narrative voice that Irving has used so authoritatively in the past seems to have been placed on automatic pilot.

3.   Her own narrative voice adds a distinctly nonprofessional tone, and at first her words are cliched.

4.   Indeed, Nigam maintains a tender but never sentimental narrative voice.

5.   It helps that both have the same down-to-earth narrative voice and an unflappability that leaves them ready for anything.

6.   The author never quite manages a settled narrative voice for his young protagonist, who veers between lyricism in the finest Latin American tradition and its opposite.

7.   The narrative voice is light, the humor is light, and eventually both become very appealing.

8.   The subtler meanings of his parable are bizarre and shrouded, but his narrative voice is characteristically startling.

9.   There was also an absorbing narrative voice that provided illuminating detail about the skills and outlook of the people who thrive in farm country.

10.   This adds nothing, and damages what is otherwise a neutral, factual narrative voice.