Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,' asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging sources, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Chinua Achebe and Arundhati Roy to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.'
- ISBN10 1555975305
- ISBN13 9781555975302
- Publish Date 28 July 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 114
- Language English