| Description |
344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Itnroduction -- Toni Morrison, 2004 -- Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005 -- Haruki Murakami, 2008 -- Richard Ford, 2007, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 2006 -- Gunter Grass, 2007 -- Nadine Gordimer, 2007 -- David Foster Wallace, 2006 -- Khaled Hosseini, 2007 -- Doris Lessing, 2006 -- Hisham Mater, 2007 -- Siri Hustvedt & Paul Auster, 2008 -- Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005 -- Charles Frazier, 2006, Edmund White, 2005 -- Geraldine Brooks, 2008 -- Imre Kertesz, 2004 -- Oliver Sacks, 2007 -- Kiran Desai, 2006 -- Philip Roth, 2006 -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2006 -- Dave Eggers, 2005 -- Vikram Chandra, 2007 -- Adrienne Rich, 2006 -- Tom Wolfe, 2004 -- Robert M. Pirsig, 2006 -- Elif Shafak, 2007 -- Peter Carey, 2008 -- Mo Yan, 2012 -- Doona Leon, 2005 -- John Updike, 2003 -- Seamus Heaney, 2006 -- Joyce Carol Oates, 2007 -- Paul Theroux, 2005 -- Don DeLillo, 2006 -- Louise Erdrich, 2008 -- Norman Mailer, 2007 -- James Wood, 2008 -- Margaret Atwood, 2006 -- Mohsin Hamid, 2007 -- Richard Powers, 2006 -- Alan Hollinghurst, 2004 -- Ian McEwan, 2005 -- Caryl Phillips, 2005 -- Wole Soyinka, 2007 -- Salman Rushdie, 2005 -- Jim Crace, 2007 -- Marilynne Robinson, 2012 -- Edmundo Paz Soldan, 2006 -- Amitav Ghosh, 2008 -- Ayu Utami, 2006 -- Frank McCourt, 2005 -- Sebastian Junger, 2006 -- Geoff Dyer, 2003 -- A. S. Byatt, 2005 |
| Summary |
John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inventor, John Updike as relationship advisor and Geoff Dyer as England's hippest middle-aged novelist, among many others including Philip Roth, Siri Hustevdt, Doris Lessing, Kirin Desai, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Wolfe and Peter Carey. How to Read a Novelist is the ultimate booklovers book |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"Portrait drawings by W.H. Chong"--Back cover |
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Also available online |
| Subject |
Authors -- Interviews.
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Authorship.
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Novelists -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Author |
Chong, W. H., 1959-
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| ISBN |
9781921922688 (paperback) |
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