Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Unusual settings in a novel.

Wednesday, August 02, 2017

What first comes to mind is THE LIFE OF PI, which takes place almost entirely in a lifeboat.

What other settings come to mind?

Anonymous said...: Reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, actually.; 7:34 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: I bet there are more because it pits characters against each other although not in Pi.; 7:35 AM
George said...: Philip K. Dick's EYE IN THE SKY which takes place in a character's mind.; 9:24 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Literally, George?; 9:39 AM
Charles Gramlich said...: One of Tom Robbins' books takes place in a pack of cigarettes.; 10:19 AM
Rick Robinson said...: The Hamish Macbeth novels by M.C. Beaton take place in a fictional village on the north east tip of Scotland, but I'm not sure if that "unusual" enough, compared to the other examples here. I guess no place on land in the world would qualify. Maybe Antarctica?; 11:57 AM
Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...: Richard Matheson's NOW YOU SEE IT ... is told entirely from inside a single room in a house, and narrated by a wheelchair-bound man in a permanent vegetative state. And then of course there is Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, from inside the coffin ...; 3:51 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: I am apparently missing a lot of great settings!; 6:54 AM
Rick Robinson said...: I think most of the ones listed are cheats.; 10:37 AM