How fiction works
By: James Wood.
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780312428471
Subjects: Fiction -- Authorship; Fiction -- Technique; Fiction -- History and criticism
Description: 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 and index.