How fiction works

"Deservedly famous for [his] intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness . . . Wood writes like a dream." --Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book Review "It is not enough to have one Wood. What is needed is a thicket--a forest--of Woods . . . [He proves] that superior criticism not only unifies and interprets a literary culture but has the power to imagine it into being." --Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine Excerpted from How Fiction Works by James Wood All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.