{"product_id":"9781529925722","title":"Stranger than Fiction","description":"Author: Frank, Edwin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529925722\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Feb 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 480\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed publisher New York Review Books. In \u003ci\u003eStranger than Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, he offers a legendary editor's survey of the key works that defined the twentieth-century novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting with Dostoevsky's \u003ci\u003eNotes from Underground\u003c\/i\u003e (1864), Frank shows how its twitchy, self-undermining narrator established a voice that would echo through the coming century. He illuminates Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's reinvention of the American sentence; Colette and Andre Gide's subversions of traditional gender roles; and the monumental ambitions of works such as \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Magic Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Man Without Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e to encompass their times. Frank also shows how Japan's Soseki and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe adapted European models to their own ends - and how Vasily Grossman, Hans Erich Nossack and Elsa Morante did the same as they attempted to reckon with the traumas of World War II. Later chapters range from Ralph Ellison and Marguerite Yourcenar to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and WG Sebald.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the manner of Alex Ross's \u003ci\u003eThe Rest Is Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank makes sense of the century by mixing biographical portraiture, cultural history and close encounters with great works of art. In so doing he renews our appreciation of the paradigmatic art form of our times.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729830432926,"sku":"UBD-9781529925722","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529925722.jpg?v=1776650672","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529925722","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}