How fiction works

By Wood, James

Subjects: Pn3331 .w67 2008, Fiction, 808.3

Description: An elegant little book by famed critic and New Yorker writer, James Woods, exploring the art of writing fiction, and writing well. Written for any lover of the novel - writers, teachers, readers - it delves into the mechanics, art and mystery that is good writing, the history of the craft and its evolution, with examples culled from Woods' personal library of favourites & a few duds.