{"product_id":"9781429908658","title":"How Fiction Works","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in \u003ci\u003eHow Fiction Works\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eMake Way for Ducklings\u003c\/i\u003e—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s \u003ci\u003eAspects of the Novel \u003c\/i\u003eand Strunk and White’s \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Style\u003c\/i\u003e. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141767381232,"sku":"9781429908658","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429908658_p0.jpg?v=1763746928","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429908658","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}