What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Looking for a pseudo-documentarian literary novel that I read in 1986 for a college Lit class. It consisted entirely of first-person monologues from residents in a fictional English town, with many characters having more than one monologue interspersed among their neighbors'. It was definitely post-WWII, and probably from the '70s or '80s. Characters included a retired colonial officer missing the lifetime spent abroad from which he retired, and a young man looking to leave town for better opportunities elsewhere, among others.

This reminds me a little of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.

That's interesting--I was not familiar with it. The book I am looking for doesn't have any scenes from the life of the village or dreams except those described in the residents' monologues, though.

Thanks for the suggestion, tho.

Pretty sure now I am thinking of .

Not really a novel at all, turns out.

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