| The Death of the Death of the Novel (One Writer's Big Innings: Literary Series) |  | Author: Robert Clark Young
Category: eBooks
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Sales Rank: 553,149
Format: Kindle eBook
Language: English (Published)
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 23
Number Of Items: 1
ASIN: B0070NB2XE
Publication Date: January 21, 2012
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Product Description
In this hopeful, optimistic, and inspiring essay of 7,000 words, Robert Clark Young uses wit, incisiveness, and hundreds of years of literary history to prove the doomsayers wrong. No, literature is not dying, and the novel in particular is stronger than ever.
If you love reading novels, or if you love writing novels, or if you love a novelist, then you will be filled with joy when you read "The Death of the Death of the Novel."
"This is a terrific essay--sharp and funny and wonderfully well written, not to mention exactly on the money. This is the real thing." --Bret Lott, best-selling novelist, Oprah’s Book Club®
"Robert Clark Young’s essay, 'The Death of the Death of the Novel,' is required reading. . . . The sky is always falling. Literature is always on the brink of extinction. Someone’s always proclaiming, Zarathustra-like, the death of the novel. Young reduces this kind of cynicism to absurdity.” --J. Mark Bertrand, novelist, The Roland March Mystery series
"I love the historical perspective Robert Clark Young emphasizes in his 'The Death of the Death of the Novel.' I’ve read about the death of the novel in essays from Barth to Birkerts, but Young has a compelling argument: although people have been predicting the novel’s death for hundreds of years, somehow it keeps on flourishing. And it will continue to flourish, for reasons you will have to read yourself." --Rachel King, NewPages.com: Good Reading Starts Here
“'The Death of the Death of the Novel,' by Robert Clark Young, sheds positive light on the health of the literary world, and is a comfort to read. The author argues that 'the Internet and iPods and DVDs are not responsible for turning book publishing into a money loser,' and that 'American literature is not only alive but immortal.'” --The Summerset Review
Robert Clark Young lives in San Diego, where he has been the primary caregiver for his parents since 2008, when both of them suffered serious strokes. All of his Kindle royalties go toward keeping his parents living in dignity and freedom in their own home. Thank you for downloading "The Death of the Death of the Novel."
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