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Stranger than Fiction

Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

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Stranger than Fiction

By: Edwin Frank
Narrated by: BJ Harrison
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"How can we live differently?" a young woman demands in Virginia Woolf's novel The Years. 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.

Imagine 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 Stranger Than Fiction. With penetrating insight and originality, Frank introduces us to books from the whole course of the century and from around the world. The 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. This book offers 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.

©2024 Edwin Frank (P)2025 Tantor Media
20th Century Literary History & Criticism Modern
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