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Novelists who lie

September 4, 2008

It’s common for works that merge fact and fiction to include some form of paratextual apology or explanation that fusses over the work’s precise status.I’ve already touched on this when discussing Margaret Forster’s Diary of an Ordinary Woman, whose ‘Author’s Note’ tries to draw a line between the book’s factual origins and its fictional outcome.Even [...]

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