A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's revelatory celebration of the novel - at once an anatomy of the art of fiction, a guide for readers and writers and a memoir of literary life.
Over her 20 year career, Jane Smiley has written many kinds of novels - mystery, comedy, historical fiction, epic. But when her impulse to write faltered after 9/11, she decided to approach novels from a different angle: she read 100 of them, from the 1000-year-old
Tale of Genji to the recent bestseller
White Teeth by Zadie Smith, from classics to little-known gems. With these books and her experience of reading them as her reference, Smiley discusses the pleasure of reading; why a novel succeeds - or doesn't; and how the form has changed over time. She delves into the character of the novelist and reveals how (and which) novels have affected her own life.
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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Literary CriticismIndex
LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What Is a Novel?
- 3. Who Is a Novelist?
- 4. The Origins of the Novel
- 5. The Psychology of the Novel
- 6. Morality and the Novel
- 7. The Art of the Novel
- 8. The Novel and History
- 9. The Circle of the Novel
- 10. A Novel of Your Own (I)
- 11. A Novel of Your Own (II)
- 12. Good Faith: A Case History
- 13. Reading a Hundred Novels
- A Hundred Novels
- Index
- Author biography
- Copyright
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