And after all, isn’t the protagonist of a novel always the author’s avatar? Knee-jerk reaction says it happens a lot, but thinking about this a bit more deeply, I realize of course there are lots of leading fictional characters that do not reflect the author’s personality. I admit that, as the Jack Orbiter character emerged in EXPAT, I had to seriousl…
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