{"product_id":"stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-hardcover","title":"Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdwin Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003emost anticipated fall book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"How can we live differently?\" a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century brought world wars, revolutions, automobiles, movies, and the internet, votes for women, death camps. The century brought questions. Novelists in the twentieth century had a question of their own: how can we write a novel as startling and unforeseen as the world we live in? Again and again they did, transforming the novel as the century remade the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImagine the history of the twentieth-century novel recounted with the urgency and intimacy of a novel. That's what Edwin Frank, the legendary editor who has run the New York Review Books publishing imprint since its inception, does in \u003ci\u003eStranger than Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. With penetrating insight and originality, Frank introduces us to books, some famous, some little-known, from the whole course of the century and from around the world. Starting with Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e of 1864, Frank shows how its twitchy, self-undermining, and never-satisfied narrator established a voice that would echo through the coming century. He illuminates the political vision of H.G. Wells's science fiction, Colette and Andre Gide's subversions of traditional gender roles, and Gertrude Stein's untethering of the American sentence. He describes the monumental ambition of books such as \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway, The Magic Mountain \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Man Without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e to rebuild a world of human possibility upon the ruins of World War I and explores how Japan's Natsume Sōseki and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe broke open European models to reflect their own, distinct histories and experience. Here too are Vasily Grossman, Anna Banti, and Elsa Morante reckoning in specific ways with the traumas of World War II, while later chapters range from Marguerite Yourcenar and V. S. Naipaul to Gabriel Garc?a Marquez and W.G. Sebald. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story as a whole is one of fearless, often reckless exploration, as well as unfathomable desolation. Throughout, we discover the power of the novel to reinvent itself, to find a way for itself, to live differently. \u003ci\u003eStranger than Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new vision of the history and art of the novel and of a dark and dazzling time in whose light and shadow we still stand.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdwin Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Born in Boulder, Colorado and educated at Harvard College and Columbia University, he has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Lannan Fellow and is a member of the New York Institute for the Humanities. He has taught in the Columbia Writing Program and served on the jury of 2015 Booker International Prize. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a recipient of a lifetime award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinguished service to the arts, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eSnake Train: Poems 1984\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e2013. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.51 x 9.25 x 6.23 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978263036205,"sku":"9780374270964","price":31.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/yUKahIKzwG9780374270964.webp?v=1775801332","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/stranger-than-fiction-lives-of-the-twentieth-century-novel-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}