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JAMES WOOD is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a visiting lecturer at Harvard. In addition to How Fiction Works, he is the author of two essay collections, The Broken Estate and The Irresponsible Self, a novel, The Book Against God.
'It is written with lovely, controlled precision. His descriptions deliver little aesthetic shock-charges of pleasure...There are delights of simple recognition...but there are also deeper emotional depth-charges' Sunday Telegraph 'Striking...The Book Against God is a gifted and winning first novel, neatly knotted at the end' Guardian 'Thought-provoking and full of sharp-eyed observations of characters and places' Daily Mail 'A work of skilful craftsmanship, which teasingly engages and disengages one's sympathies' The Economist 'The novel simply thrums with an intellectual passion rarely seen in fiction these days' Spectator 'At once hilarious and haunting...It keeps your attention in every sentence' Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times 'Spry and confident...by turns gravely comic and hilariously tragic' Sunday Herald
