How fiction works / James Wood.

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  • Author(s): Wood, James, 1965-
  • Language:
    English
  • Publication Information:
    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
  • Publication Date:
    2008
  • Physical Description:
    xvi, 265 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publication Type:
    Book
  • Document Type:
    Bibliographies; Non-fiction
  • Subject Terms:
    Fiction
  • Availability: 1 Holdings
  • Additional Information
    • Publication Information:
      First edition
    • Abstract:
      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 (p. [249]-252) and index.
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    • ISBN:
      9780374173401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
      0374173400 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • Accession Number:
      2008010290
    • Accession Number:
      213765645
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.444058