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Style and Character in Winemaking

Style and Character in Winemaking

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Fredric Koeppel
Aug 05, 2008
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In his new book, How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24), James Wood dwells on a tendency in some novelists -- John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace -- to load their narratives with descriptions and metaphors that would not necessarily find natural home in the thoughts or speech of their characters. These devices call attention to…

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