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An edition of The fun stuff, and other essays (2012)

The fun stuff, and other essays

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Following "The Broken Estate", "The Irresponsible Self", and "How Fiction Works"--Books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - "The Fun Stuff" confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passionate, sparkling dispatches - that range over such crucial writers as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, and Mikhail Lermontov - Wood offers a panoramic look at the modern novel. He effortlessly connects his encyclopaedic, passionate understanding of the literary canon with an equally in-depth analysis of the most important authors writing today, including Cormac McCarthy, Lydia Davis, Aleksander Hemon, and Michel Houellebecq. Included in "The Fun Stuff" are the title essay on Keith Moon and the lost joys of drumming - which was a finalist for last year's National Magazine Awards - as well as Wood's essay on George Orwell, which Christopher Hitchens selected for the Best American Essays 2010. "The Fun Stuff" is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about contemporary literature.

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Jonathan Cape
Language
English
Pages
344

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2013, Jonathan Cape
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: The Fun Stuff: Homage to Keith Moon
W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Thinking: Norman Rush
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Edmund Wilson
Aleksandar Hemon
Beyond a Boundary: Netherland as Post-Colonial Novel
Wounder and Wounded
Robert Alter and the King James Bible
Tolstoy's War and Peace
Marilynne Robinson
Lydia Davis
Containment: Trauma and Manipulation in Ian McEwan
Richard Yates
George Orwell's Very English Revolution
`Unfathomablel' (Mikhail Lermontov)
Thomas Hardy
Geoff Dyer
Paul Auster's Shallowness
`Reality Examined to the Point of Madness': Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Ismail Kadare
English Muddle: Alan Hollinghurst
Life's White Machine: Ben Lerner
Packing My Father-in-Law's Library.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.3
Library of Congress
PN3504 .W66 2013, PN3504

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 344 pages
Number of pages
344

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32782328M
Internet Archive
funstuffotheress0000wood
ISBN 10
0224097113
ISBN 13
9780224097116
OCLC/WorldCat
813856323

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