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Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
Jane Smiley
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Paperback, 591 pages; 2006 (2005)
$15.95
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Shaken by the events of September 11, 2001, and struggling with writer's block, Jane Smiley walked away from her computer and spent a year reading and rereading novels--one hundred of them. From the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, to Jennifer Egan's 2002 Look at Me; from Louisa May Alcott's gentle Little Women to Vladimir Nabokov's controversial Lolita, Smiley's choices are eclectic and often surprising. In Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, she explains her selections and comments on them. Smiley has also included a series of essays about the novel as a genre--its origins, history, art, and psychology. If you've enjoyed her Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction, try taking Smiley's "course" in the novel. It's enlightening as well as entertaining, like your favorite literature courses were years ago.
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