Author: James Wood
Narrator: James Adams
Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 04/21/2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines - Composition & Creative Writing
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. Raging widely from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings, Woods takes the reader through the basic elements of the art of fiction, step-by-step. He sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision, resulting in nothing less than a philosophy of the novel, which has won critical acclaim nationwide, from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times Book Review. A 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book for Nonfiction. A 2008 Washington Post Best Book for Nonfiction. A 2008 Economist Best Book for Nonfiction. A 2008 Library Journal Best Book for Nonfiction. A 2008 New York Times Book Review Notable Book.
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