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Fun Stuff, and Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Essays
Following "The Broken Estate", "The Irresponsible Self", and "How Fiction Works" - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - "The Fun Stuff" confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-thre ...Show more
How Fiction Works by James Wood
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Category: On Writing
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 study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time l ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
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Category: Essays
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 Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood
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Category: Essays
Published when he was thirty-three, "The Broken Estate" is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American readers to a new kind of humanist criticism. Wood is co ...Show more
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Essays
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works- books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuffconfirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passiona ...Show more
The Nearest Thing to Life by James Wood
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Category: On Writing
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
Upstate by James Wood
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Category: Fiction
Receiving word that his daughter Vanessa, who moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, has fallen into a severe depression, Alan Querry and his younger daughter, Helen, travel from England to upstate New York. Over six wintry days, the family begins to struggle with the questions that anima ...Show more
Upstate - A Novel by James Wood
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Category: Fiction
New Yorker book critic and award-winning author James Wood delivers a novel of a family struggling to connect with one another and find meaning in their own lives. In the years since his daughter Vanessa moved to America to become a professor of philosophy, Alan Querry has never been to visit. He has ...Show more
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