How to Read a Novelist

By: John Freeman

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Paperback | 22 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inventor, John Updike as relationship advisor and Geoff Dyer as England's hippest middle-aged novelist, among many others including Philip Roth, Siri Hustevdt, Doris Lessing, Kirin Desai, Toni Morrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tom Wolfe and Peter Carey. How to Read a Novelist is the ultimate booklovers book.

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'Freeman's interviews transcend the mechanics of the encounters and, beyond smart and knowledgeable, he's the kind of interlocutor who asks a sideways question, then pays attention to the space and circumstance of the answer as much as to its words.' * Weekend Australian *
'John Freeman's collection of interviews spans 56 giants of the literary world, nine years and an accumulated IQ reaching into the stratosphere.' * Sunday Star Times *
'Pure gold...Full of wit and wisdom; a buoy in the face of life's inevitable swats.' * Insights Magazine *
'This book is billed as "the ultimate booklover's book" and it's true. This booklover was in a state approaching ecstasy reading about John Freeman's conversations and intimacies (and occasional gaffes) with all the writers I have loved and wondered about.' * Courier Mail / Daily Telegraph *
'Bearing in mind that novelists must be the most self-aware profession to interrogate, Freeman here triumphs.' * Examiner *

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