The fun stuff, and other essays / James Wood.
The fun stuff, and other essays / James Wood.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Date
2012.
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G 2013/538
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 339 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
The fun stuff : homage to Keith Moon -- W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Thinking: Norman Rush -- Cormac McCarthy's The road -- Edmund Wilson -- Aleksandar Hemon -- Beyond a boundary: Netherland as a postcolonial novel -- Wounder and wounded -- Robert Alter and the Ki...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2012.
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In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches--which range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov--literary critic James Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysi...
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The fun stuff, and other essays / James Wood.
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G 2013/538
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74VvyjwExkPX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvyjwExkPX
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ISBN
0374159564
9780374159566
DDC
824.92
809.304
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991016225979702626
