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Serious Noticing Selected Essays

Paperback • 2019 • English

Serious Noticing Selected Essays

By James Wood

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About the book

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville James Wood is one of the leading critics of the age, and here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-defining 'Hysterical Realism' to his more personal reflections on family, religion and sensibility, Serious Noticing...Show more

Literary essays
Reportage, journalism or collected columns
Literary studies: general

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ISBN

9781529111910

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Serious Noticing Selected Essays

Format

Paperback

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