How To Read A Novelist

For the last fifteen years, if a novel was published, John Freeman has been there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, he has reviewed thousands of books and interviewed scores of writers, and in How to Read a Novelist, he shares with us what he has learned.From such international stars as Doris Lessing, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie and Mo Yan, to British talents including Ian McEwan, Jim Crace, A. S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst, American masters such as Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth, to the new guard of Jennifer Egan, Junot Daz, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen ? Freeman has talked to everyone.How to Read a Novelist is essential reading for every aspiring writer and engaged reader, the perfect companion for anyone who's ever curled up with a novel and wanted to know a bit more about the person who made that moment possible.