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There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIlvanney - on the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing together some of the most strenuous and perceptive critics of the present moment and putting them in contact with some of the finest novels of the past three decades, it examines what the novel does and what kinds of truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What is it about the language used in a novel that creates a world different from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular novel emplify this? These questions can be answered by the careful examination of particular great works by strong evaluative critics. Robert Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.
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Ray Ryan is a publisher and critic. He lives in Cambridge. Liam McIlvaney is author of a debut novel, All the Colours of the Town. He lives in New Zealand where he teaches at the University of Dunedin.
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This got a rip-roaring, rib-tickling review in a recent New Statesman which I commend to your attention before you shell out (in fact the arts pages were good overall; unfortunately all I can remember is a deliciously cold eye poring over The Organist Entertains - or I suppose that should be ear as it's radio (um, baneful ear??); oh, and I think both stellar Woods, James and Michael, featured, so if only I'd kept this ish I might have been able to tell my Wood from my - oh, forget it)May try and amplify this if I'm spared - but the NS is a **good read** - less attitudinizing/posturing/taking up a position for the sake of it (am I boring you?) than in what remains of the dailies, which have to churn this stuff out, well, daily. But the This England slot isn't what it was; this sort of thing is best left to the incomparable Private Eye.
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