- Fiction, Authorship, Technique, History and criticism
Provides a somewhat academic approach to a discussion of the main elements of fiction using examples (good and bad) from literature.
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Spare, cool, contemporary and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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- Author
- James Wood
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374173401
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literary critic from UK living in US, teaching at Harvard and writing for “The New Yorker;” also an author of fiction; married to novelist Claire Messud
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