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James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true, he is our best critic, he thinks ...
'Highly intelligent- This is a book that I shall certainly re-read, for its comic realism, its warm intelligence ...
JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. In addition to How Fiction Works, he is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, a novel, The Book Against God.
'Highly intelligent- This is a book that I shall certainly re-read, for its comic realism, its warm intelligence, its lack of pretension' A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph
A deep, practical anatomy of the novel from 'the strongest ... literary critic we have' (New York Review of Books)
A collection of dazzling essays from one of the world's finest and most controversial literary critics.
James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true, he is our best critic, he thinks with a sublime ferocity -Cynthia Ozick.