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Louis Sachar
1998
Children's Book
Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Holes has a third-person omniscient narrator. The narrator reveals a great deal about the world of the story, including many details unknown to the characters.
Holes uses the past tense.
Holes takes place in a juvenile detention camp where convicts are forced to dig deep holes in a hot, dry lake bed every day. Throughout the story, holes are metaphorically associated with being stuck in a bad situation.
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