How fiction works / James Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, James, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xvi, 265 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780374173401

0374173400

OCLC:

213765645

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