Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction - Hardcover

Kemp, Peter

 
9780300269628: Retroland: A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300269625 ISBN 13: 9780300269628
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2023

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The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel
 
Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread narratives. This is truly a golden age. But what unites this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles? Celebrated writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed with the past. In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters, Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary. Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom, United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary Mantel, this is a work of remarkable synthesis and clarity―a wonderfully readable and enjoyably opinionated guide to our current literary landscape.

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Peter Kemp is chief fiction reviewer for the Sunday Times. He is the author of books on Muriel Spark and H. G. Wells, editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations, and associate editor of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300269625
ISBN 13 
9780300269628
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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