Stranger Than Fiction is a masterclass in masterpieces. There hasn’t been a better work of historicist criticism since Robert Hughes’s 1980 book The Shock of the New
Sunday Telegraph
Essential for anyone who loves novels, this book examines how writers translated the seismic and bloody 20th century into memorable fiction
Economist, *Books of the Year*
This is the most engaging imagining of the progress of the 20th-century novel you will read… Frank writes as an enthusiast…always alive to the stories he is telling and the arguments he makes
Observer
Stranger Than Fiction is a masterclass in masterpieces. There hasn’t been a better work of historicist criticism since Robert Hughes’s 1980 book The Shock of the New
Sunday Telegraph
Essential for anyone who loves novels, this book examines how writers translated the seismic and bloody 20th century into memorable fiction
Economist, *Books of the Year*
This is the most engaging imagining of the progress of the 20th-century novel you will read… Frank writes as an enthusiast…always alive to the stories he is telling and the arguments he makes
Observer
Stranger Than Fiction is a masterclass in masterpieces. There hasn’t been a better work of historicist criticism since Robert Hughes’s 1980 book The Shock of the New
Sunday Telegraph
Essential for anyone who loves novels, this book examines how writers translated the seismic and bloody 20th century into memorable fiction
Economist, *Books of the Year*
This is the most engaging imagining of the progress of the 20th-century novel you will read… Frank writes as an enthusiast…always alive to the stories he is telling and the arguments he makes