{"product_id":"how-fiction-works","title":"How Fiction Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Wood\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 194 pages\u003cbr\u003e9781845950934\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Should find a place on every novel-lover's shelf. It has the quality all useful works of criticism should have: refined taste, keen observation, and the ability to make the reader argue, passionately, with it' - Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Milan Kundera's The Art of the Novel, How Fiction Works is a study of the main elements of fiction, such as narrative, detail, characterization, dialogue, realism, and style. In his first full-length book of criticism, one of the most prominent critics of our time takes the machinery of story-telling apart to ask a series of fundamental questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWood ranges widely, from Homer to Beatrix Potter, from the Bible to John Le Carré, and his book is both a study of the techniques of fiction-making and an alternative history of the novel. Playful and profound, it incisively sums up two decades of bold, often controversial, and now classic critical work, and will be enlightening to writers, readers, and anyone interested in what happens on the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44107598430243,"sku":"9781845950934","price":27.5,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2514\/8624\/files\/DSC_1776_89d5c04e-7db9-439c-9d52-0c985183538b.jpg?v=1793248169","url":"https:\/\/wardahbooks.live\/products\/how-fiction-works","provider":"Wardah Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}