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Book Description
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his firstContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Celebrate the force of fiction
How Fiction Works by James Wood Cape £16.99, pp208 James Wood, once a Guardian book reviewer, is now professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard. Despite its clunkily repeated preposition, the latter job description spells out a defian ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Novel tour guide
How Fiction Works by James Wood 208pp, Jonathan Cape, £16.99 At some point in the past decade, James Wood became the most admired youngish fiction critic working in English. And he built his career the old-fashioned way, on Grub Street rather than in ... (read full critics)