How Fiction Works

Name: How Fiction Works
Author: James Wood

by James Wood

Critical examination of techniques and principles of fiction writing

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James Wood

British-American literary critic whose How Fiction Works is the finest recent examination of the art of the novel. His reviews in The New Yorker and London Review of Books have shaped literary taste for a generation. He coined the term 'hysterical realism' for the maximalist novel of DeLillo and Pynchon.

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