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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ...
    Release Year
    2008
    Book Title
    How Fiction Works
    ISBN
    9780374173401
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux
    ISBN-10
    0374173400
    ISBN-13
    9780374173401
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    59088626

    Product Key Features

    Number of Pages
    288 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Name
    How Fiction Works
    Subject
    General, Composition & Creative Writing
    Publication Year
    2008
    Type
    Textbook
    Subject Area
    Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
    Author
    James Wood
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.1 in
    Item Weight
    0.4 Oz
    Item Length
    7.8 in
    Item Width
    5.3 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2008-010290
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Reviews
    "Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn,The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick,Harper's Magazine, "Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." -Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket-a forest-of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." -Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine
    Illustrated
    Yes
    Dewey Decimal
    808.3
    Synopsis
    What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from "What Maisie Knew "to "Make Way for Ducklings"--Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel "and Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style." It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read., What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works , the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely--from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings --Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step.The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel--plainspoken, funny, blunt--in the traditions of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White's The Elements of Style . It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.
    LC Classification Number
    PN3331.W67 2008

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