{"product_id":"novel-style-ben-masters-9780198766148","title":"Novel Style: Ethics and Excess in English Fiction Since the 1960s","description":"We live in a time of linguistic plainness. This is the age of the tweet and the internet meme; the soundbite, the status, the slogan. Everything reduced to its most basic components. Stripped back. Pared down. Even in the world of literature, where we might hope to find some linguistic luxury, we are flirting with a recessionary mood. Big books abound, but rhetorical largesse at the level of the sentence is a shrinking economy. There is a prevailing minimalist sensibility in the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eNovel Style\u003c\/em\u003e is driven by the conviction that elaborate writing opens up unique ways of thinking that are endangered when expression is reduced to its leanest possible forms. By re-examining the works of essential English stylists of the late twentieth century (Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Martin Amis), as well as a newer generation of twenty-first-century stylists (Zadie Smith, Nicola Barker, David Mitchell), Ben Masters argues for the ethical power of stylistic flamboyance in fiction and demonstrates how being a stylist and an ethicist are one and the same thing. A passionate championing of elaborate writing and close reading, \u003cem\u003eNovel Style\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates what it means to have style and how style can change us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Masters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198766149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198766148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/21\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Ben Masters","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981490422015,"sku":"9780198766148","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_32c3ebc4-cd71-4827-8e0c-4ec59cc65e53.jpg?v=1683255886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/novel-style-ben-masters-9780198766148","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}