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The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

Paperback • 2006 • English

The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

By James Acheson

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About the book

Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing mainly on authors whose fi...Show more

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ISBN

9781403974303

Publisher

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

The Contemporary British Novel Since 1980

Format

Paperback

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