Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible, asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction.
The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot.
Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction.
In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.
Graywolf Press The art of time in fiction: as long as it takes, paperback/joan silber
