How Novels Work

Name: How Novels Work
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ISBN: 9780199281787

ISBN-10: 0199281785

ISBN-13: 9780199281787

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Mullan

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Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, "Elements of Fiction," John Mullan offers an engaging look at the novel, focusing mostly on works of the last ten years as he illuminates the rich resources of novelistic technique. Mullan sheds light on some of the true masterworks of contemporary fiction, including Monica Ali's Brick Lane, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Don DeLillo's Underworld, Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Patricia Highsmith's Ripley under Ground, Ian McEwan's Atonement, John le Carre's The Constant Gardener, Philip Roth's The Human Stain, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, and Zadie Smith's White…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.638



Introduction



Beginning



Narrating



People



Genre



Voices



Structure



Detail



Style



Devices



Literariness



Ending