You will be published if your heroine is in a coma
During the half-century since 1950, Lindsay
Duguid writes in an essay in this collection, ‘the lady novelist turned into
the woman writer,’ the historical novel became respectable once again, crime
fiction became respectable for the first time, and the English novel was reborn
as the British novel. Indian novelists revealed a ‘fondness for identical
twins’, while angels, giants, babies and women who pass as men grew curiously
fashionable. ‘In 1999, three British novels and one American novel featured a
heroine in a coma.’ Stuffed with
literary graduates, publishers’ offices are increasingly coming up with
paradoxical comparisons for dustjackets: ‘Brighton Rock written by Charlotte Brontë’; ‘the
Camus of the backpacking generation’.
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