Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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Book
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vi, 510 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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9780374261160

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Originally published in 2019 by Vintage, Great Britain, as Serious noticing: selected essays.
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"These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and The New Republic"--Title page verso.
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Ever since the publication of his first essay collection, The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical writers (Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville), recent legends (Don DeLillo, Marilynne Robinson) and significant contemporaries (Zadie Smith, Elena Ferrante) have established a standard for informed and incisive appreciation, composed in a distinctive literary style all their own. Together, Wood's essays, and his bestselling How Fiction Works, share an abiding preoccupation with how fiction tells its own truths, and with the vocation of the writer in a world haunted by the absence of God. In Serious Noticing, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book The Nearest Thing to Life and recent essays from The New Yorker on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium. -- from Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Wood, J., McCarthy, C., & Tolstoy, L. (2020). Serious noticing: selected essays, 1997-2019 (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Wood, James, 1965-, Cormac McCarthy and Leo Tolstoy. 2020. Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Wood, James, 1965-, Cormac McCarthy and Leo Tolstoy. Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Wood, James, Cormac McCarthy, and Leo Tolstoy. Serious Noticing: Selected Essays, 1997-2019 First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

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