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Item Details
Title:
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THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE NOVEL
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By: |
Jane Smiley |
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Electronic book text |
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£10.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571317685 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571317684 |
Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
14 August, 2014 |
Description: |
Over her 20 year career, the author has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle. This book offers a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life. |
Synopsis: |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life. Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller White Teeth by Zadie Smith, from classics to little-known gems. With these books and her experience of reading them as her reference, Smiley discusses the pleasure of reading; why a novel succeeds - or doesn't; and how the form has changed over time. She delves into the character of the novelist and reveals how (and which) novels have affected her own life. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber Non-Fiction |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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