Conversations with Biographical Novelists

Conversations with Biographical Novelists PDF Author: Michael Lackey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501341472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Book Description
How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donoghue, David Ebershoff, David Lodge, Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, and Olga Tokarczuk sit down with literary scholars to discuss the relationship of history, truth, and fiction. Taken together, these conversations clarify how the biographical novel encourages cross-cultural dialogue, promotes new ways of thinking about history, politics, and social justice, and allows us to journey into the interior world of influential and remarkable people.