How fiction works
by James Wood
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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.--From publisher description.
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How Fiction Works
July 22, 2008, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover
in English
0374173400 9780374173401
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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