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How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide

How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide

Paperback

Literary Criticism

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 0312359896
ISBN13: 9780312359898
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Sep 18 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Do we still know how to read a novel? John Sutherland, Chairman of the 2005 Booker Prize Committee, asks. His answer is an unequivocal, No. But Sutherland has not given up hope. With acerbic wit and intellect, he traces the history of what it used to mean to be well-read and tells readers what it still means today while reminding readers how the delicate charms of fiction can be at once wonderful and inspired and infuriating. On one level this is a book about novels but at a deeper level, this is a book in which one of the most intimate tête-à-têtes is described--one in which a reader meets a novel. However, in order for the relationship to take its proper course, a reader must know how to read it! Sutherland helps readers:

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