How Fiction Works (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Updated and Expanded10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction James Wood's How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction an analysis of its main elements and a celebration of its lasting power. Here one of the most prominent and stylish critics of our time looks into the machinery of storytelling to ask some fundamental questions: What do we mean when we say we know a fictional character? What constitutes a telling detail? When is a