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Reading the Novel in English 1950 - 2000

Brian W. Shaffer
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0114-1
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256 pages
November 2007, ©2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • An engaging introduction to the English-language novel writing in the second half of the twentieth century.

  • Focuses on British and Irish novelists, and on Anglophone novelists from other countries (exclusive of the US).

  • Provides students both with strategies for interpretation and with fresh readings of selected seminal texts.

  • Maps out the most important contexts and concepts for understanding this fiction.

  • Features readings of ten influential English-language novels including Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

  • Written in clear, jargon-free prose.

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