How to Read a Novelist

The novel is alive and well, thank you very much For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta , he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers. In How to Read a Novelist , which pulls together his very best profiles (many of them new or completely rewritten for this volume) o