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The Book of Other People

Name: The Book of Other People
Rating: 3 (10 reviews)
Author: Александр Хемон

Хемон Александр, Кеннеди А. Л., ... [еще 7] Clowes Daniel, Packer ZZ, Ware Chris, Greer Sean, Дантика Эдвидж, O’Hagan Andrew, Хоумс Э. М. [Свернуть]

Жанр Проза

Год 2010

Язык Английский

Обьем книги: Полная версия

An anthology of stories edited by Zadie Smith

A stellar host of writers explore the cornerstone of fiction writing: character

The Book of Other People is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by Zadie Smith to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight "realism"-if such a thing exists-is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples.

The writers featured in The Book of Other People include:

Aleksandar Hemon

Nick Hornby

Hari Kunzru

Toby Litt

David Mitchell

George Saunders

Colm Tóibín

Chris Ware, and more.