{"product_id":"good-of-the-novel-9780571230860","title":"The Good Of The Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of  literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism  of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels.     The Good of the Novel  is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan  and LIam McIlvanney - on the contemporary Anglophone novel. Bringing  together some of the most strenuous and perceptive critics of the  present moment and putting them in contact with some of the finest  novels of the past three decades, it examines what the novel does and what  kinds of truth the novel can tell. What is it that the novel knows? What  is it about the language used in a novel that creates a world different  from that of drama or poetry? And how does a particular novel emplify  this?     These questions can be answered by the careful examination  of particular great works by strong evaluative critics. Robert  Macfarlane on Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty; Tessa Hadley examining Coetzee's Disgrace; and Ian Sansom on Roth's American Pastoral - just some of the essays that are to be found in this insightful, intelligent and illuminating book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977810841766,"sku":"9780571230860","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780571230860_1.jpg?v=1656104297","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/good-of-the-novel-9780571230860","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}