Stranger Than Fiction

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024''A masterclass in masterpieces'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH''Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty'' JOSHUA COHEN''Sizzles with passion'' TOM McCARTHYFor more than two decade ...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024''A masterclass in masterpieces'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH''Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty'' JOSHUA COHEN''Sizzles with passion'' TOM McCARTHYFor 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-undermining narrator established a voice that would echo throug