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How to read a novelist

Paperback • 2016 • English • 1. edition

How to read a novelist: conversations with writers

By John Freeman

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About the book

For the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, and current editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers, and in How to Read a Novelist, he shares with us what he has learned. How to Read a Novelist collects his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time. What emerges is an i...Show more

Literature: history and criticism

Book details

ISBN

9781472109378

Publisher

Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import)

Published year

2016

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

How to read a novelist

Format

Paperback

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