How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded

James Wood

How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Picador USA
Country
Published
7 August 2018
Pages
304
ISBN
9781250183927

How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded

James Wood

10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction

James Wood’s How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction–an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power.

Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we know a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a metaphor successful? Is Realism realistic? Why do some literary conventions become dated while others stay fresh?

James Wood ranges widely, from Homer to Make Way for Ducklings, from the Bible to John le Carre, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, How Fiction Works will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone else interested in what happens on the page.

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