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How Fiction Works 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Catalog: Book Release date: 2008-07-22 Media: Hardcover Number of pages: 288 Ean: 9780374173401 Book Isbn: 0374173400  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on July 22, 2008 Summary: The Magician's Secrets James Wood conducts a concise but edifying tour behind the curtain of novel making, aimed primarily at the student and interested layperson. He examines the techniques used by the novelist that readers routinely take for granted. By spotlighting and defamiliarizing them, he demonstrates how they have evolved over the centuries, including examples of both good and bad usage. Topics include free indirect style, the conciousness of characters, reality in fiction, successful use of metaphor and simile, different registers of tone, among others. One of his most interesting discussions is on characters: how have different writers approached creating characters, including a history of critical responses to those approaches. This is typical of Wood's modus operandi: take a basic component of novel writing and examine the assumptions we make as readers in order to understand and use what we are reading; what are the conventions writers and readers have evolved, and how did they come into being. Wood's style here is mostly shorn of the metaphors that illuminate his prior collections of criticism; the writing is invariably clear and succinct. My only disappointment was in his episodic inability to refrain from revealing key plot points (i.e. Anna and the train) that may diminish the pleasure for future readers. This is the best book I know to make one a more observant and appreciative reader. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2008-07-22 | 2000-07-18 | 2008-05-20 | 2008-09-16 | 2008-09-02 | 2008-09-19 |
| Media | Hardcover | Paperback | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover | Hardcover |
| Number of pages | 288 | 304 | 272 | 233 | 336 | 576 |
| Ean | 9780374173401 | 9780375752636 | 9780307377043 | 9780547054841 | 9780374299101 | 9780061768064 |
| Book Isbn | 0374173400 | 0375752633 | 0307377040 | 054705484X | 0374299102 | 0061768065 |
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