Now Frank has written a book of his own, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel ... recognized as paradigm-changing and historical even in their day, and so writers ...

Stranger Than Fiction, Edwin Frank’s magisterial ... or Harold Lloyd as they slide down the rubbish chute of 20th-century history. All have “the poise of a surfer on a breaker” – Frank ...

For many of Frank’s subjects, even the most arduously researched of nineteenth-century novels seemed artificial; through innovations in style, subject matter and narrative technique, they attempted to ...

“Stranger Than Fiction” tells the story of these detonations across the course of the 20th century ... is a superb chapter on Elsa Morante’s “History: A Novel” (1974)—and elegant ...

Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious. His article of faith is that the most demanding ...