Understanding Novels: A Reader's Guide to Literary Form and Technique

A lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying and fun: Understanding Novels shows how a novel's structure- point of view, narrative voice, chapter construction, character emblems and even the first sentence creates meaning and forms the special literary language of the novel.
The way the story is told is as important as the story being told. And how readers will respond. If readers decide the book isn't worth their time, then the book ceases to exist in any meaningful fashion. If readers are going to hold the life and death of novels in their hands, they should probably find out more about them. Bestselling literary commentator, Tom Foster, shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.