Good Fiction Guide

Name: Good Fiction Guide
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ISBN: 9780192100214

ISBN-10: 0192100211

ISBN-13: 9780192100214

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane Rogers, Hermione Lee, Mike Harris, Douglas Houston

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Covering everyone from Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain to Don De Lillo and Lorrie Moore, Good Fiction Guide offers an informative reference work on novelists and their works, with an emphasis of twentieth-century fiction and popular classics, but with ample coverage of major novelists of the past. The guide takes us on a stimulating tour of the literary landscape. Here are more than one thousand alphabetically arranged biographies of important novelists, ranging from Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola. There are profiles of leading contemporary writers, such as Ann Beattie, Thomas Pynchon, Jane Smiley, Martin Amis, Amy Tan, Peter Carey, V.S. Naipaul, and Harold Brodkey. The entries provide a flavor…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/30/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

Jane Rogers has written five novels & the script for the BBC adaptation of "Mr. Wroe's Virgins," directed by Danny Boyle & starring Minnie Driver & Jonathan Pryce. Her "Living Image" won the Somerset Maugham Award, & "Promised Lands" won the Writers Guild Award for best novel. She lives in Lancashire, England.



Introduction


Contributors


Subject Essays


Adventure



Africa



Australia and New Zealand



Black and white



Canada



Caribbean



Childhood



Classics



Crime



Family saga



Fantasy



Film adaptations



France



Germany



Glamour



Historical



Humour



India



Ireland



Magic realism



Romance



Russia



Science fiction



The sea



Sexual politics



Short stories



Social issues



Spy



Supernatural



Teen



Thrillers



United States of America



War



Western



Authors A-Z