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How Fiction Works by James Wood
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
How Fiction Works is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: fair
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" and Milan Kundera's "The Art of the Novel", "How Fiction Works" is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of c ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...Show more
The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
$36.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: very good
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivi ...Show more
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