books.google.com - What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from...http://books.google.com/books/about/How_Fiction_Works.html?id=IWe96NDQioEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHow Fiction Works