How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman - 9781472109378

Little, Brown Book Group

How to Read a NovelistConversations with Writers\nAuthor(s): John Freeman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Corsair\nISBN-13: 9781472109378, 978-1472109378\nSynopsis\nFor the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, and current editor of Granta, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers, and in How to Read a Novelist, he shares with us what he has learned.\n\nHow to Read a Novelist collects his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) of the very best novelists of our time. What emerges is an illuminating, definitive, and idiosyncratic guide to a diverse and lively literary culture. From such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, and Mo Yan; to American masters such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip.