The Novel

by James A. Michener

Lukas Yoder is a successful novelist who has written, he thinks, his final book. But when a tragedy strikes his small town of Dresden, Pennsylvania, he finds a new inspiration. Meanwhile, his publishing company is being taken over, his editor struggles to maintain her integrity, and a literary critic at a nearby university must come to terms with his novelistic ambitions and his jealousy of both Yoder and his own students.

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	9780449221433, Paperback, Crest, 1992 $1.00 (Good ) Other copies of 9780449221433

	9780679402282, Audio Cassette, Random House, 1991 $2.75 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780679402282

	9780679403487, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1991 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780679403487

	9780679401339, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 1991 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780679401339

Publisher Notes

James Michener turns the creation and publication of a novel into an extroardinary and exciting experience as he renders believable the intriguing personalities who are the parents to its birth: a writer, editor, critic, and reader are locked in the desperate scenario of life, death, love, and truth. As immediate as today's headlines, as close as the bookshelves, THE NOVEL is a fascinating look into the glamorous world of the writer.Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club

Media Reviews

"[T]hough 'The Novel' has big problems...it is far more than a narrowly didactic how-to book. Its main characters are rounded people, each of whom undergoes a crisis that lends dramatic shape to the section he or she dominates....Mr. Michener explores some of the deepest issues raised by narrative literature, most pertinently whether the success of a novel should be measured by the size of its readership...The dialogue is wooden, the plotting is slow and too obvious, and the emotion is often excessive to the point of sticky sentimentality.... It engages the reader with its intelligent discussions of literature and publishing. But it falls so far short of singing that it can barely carry its tune."

First Line

This Tuesday morning, 3 October 1990, at half after ten, I typed the last sentence of the novel that will complete what the critics have taken to calling "The Grenzler Octet," as if I had planned from the beginning to write eight interrelated books on the same theme. No, that came about by accident.

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