fiction
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Her fiction took characters who had traditionally been marginal presences—in her case, African-Americans—and made them protagonists.
Sterne was a muse of the broken-hearted, and, for all its oddities, “Tristram Shandy” is 18th-century sentimental fiction at its finest.
This is a delicate, confidently imagined fiction made with the eyes of a naturalist, the heart of a believer in family, and a sensibility with room for both the Pythonesque and the Lynchian.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Winslow’s first fiction, “A Cool Breeze on the Underground,” took three years to write and was rejected 14 times before seeing print in 1991.
Reality, however, isn’t as sterile as today’s popular fiction.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
