Stranger Than Fiction Lives of the TwentiethCentury Novel

A legendary editor¿s survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank¿s masterly account of the novel gone modern and the modern gone global is a critical history of the last literary century. Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty' JOSHUA COHEN'Stranger Than Fiction sizzles with passion as it tracks the contortions of a volatile form in a volatile time' TOM McCARTHY'Living as we do in a world where book culture is on the decline, Stranger Than Fiction comes as a comfort, a solace and a revelation: a wealth of remarkable writing about even more remarkable writing' VIVIAN GORNICKFor more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed publisher New York Review Books. In Stranger than Fiction, he offers a legendary editor¿s survey of the key works that defined the twentieth-century novel. Starting with Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, Frank shows how its twitchy, self-undermini