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ISBN10: 0374173400, ISBN13: 9780374173401, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York] Hardcover 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. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read. Review: Amazon Best of the Month, July 2008: The first thing you'll notice about How Fiction Works is its size. At 252 pages, it's a marvel of economy for a book that asks such a huge question and right away you'll want to know (as you might at the start of a new novel) what the author has in store. James Wood takes only his own bookshelves as his literary terrain for this study, and that in itself is the most delightful gift: he joins his audience as a reader, citing his chosen texts judiciously--ranging from Henry James (from whom he takes the best epigraph to a book I've ever read) to Nabokov, Joyce, Updike, and more--to explore not just how fiction ...

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ISBN10: 0374173400, ISBN13: 9780374173401, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Wood, James HOW FICTION WORKS New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008. FIRST EDITION Full number line. As New/As New 265 pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth with gilt title on the spine. Text is clean and clear. In the original unclipped dust jacket. The pages are clean and square. Related papers laid within. The piece is in excellent condition
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ISBN10: 0374173400, ISBN13: 9780374173401, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover 2008; white paper covered boards with red titles; paper jacket; wear around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; small stain on edge of pages, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked; 265 pages. from the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan
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