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This study considers all of Kazuo Ishiguro's work, exploring the centrality of dignity and displacement in his vision and teasing out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. How Japanese is Ishiguro What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives

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Newly commissioned essays from world-leading Kazuo Ishiguro scholars with chapters on the novels (including the first publication on Klara and the Sun (2021)), short fictions, and screenplays, this book offers a critical reappraisal of the 2017 Nobel Laureate while also uncovering important new thematic and stylistic insights

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This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full-length study of the novel.

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Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, has produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. This book presents critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, has produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. This book presents critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro.

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This edited collection of new and insightful critical essays brings together a wide range of academics whose work stages a forum exploring the key aspects of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Featuring an interview with Ishiguro, this groundbreaking book is ideal for anyone studying the work of this major contemporary author.

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Beginning with "Eye of the Needle" in 1978, Ken Follett has pursued a successful and varied fiction-writing career. This study of his work looks at Follett's experimentation with genre, and includes individual examinations of each of his major novels, up to and including "A Place Called Freedom".

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WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018
An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an empire, her thrillers helped save the world. With a foreword by Lee Child.

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A study of Kurt Vonnegut's novels, approaching them as literary experiments attempting to comprehend the American experience in the postmodern condition.

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The Literary Contexts section, devoted to examining issues of genre, influences and themes in Vonnegut's writing, adds to a fuller understanding of the man and his literary works.

This exceptionally well-written Critical Companion will help students and interested readers appreciate Vonnegut's most important and popular novels.

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Contributors discuss literary images and representations in Vonnegut's writings, and graphic art and representations of his ideas in various media, such as film.

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This book introduces and explores a new genre, lab lit. Essays both discuss lab lit novels using a variety of analytical approaches as well as provide a theoretical framework to explore the social and literary backgrounds of the genre.

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On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. This title traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough.

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Probes how Larry McMurty has given contemporary relevance to traditional elements of the Western Story.