Monday, 12 March 2012

A million little James Freys

The book is billed as “memoir written as fiction”, which, as far as I can work out, means that it’s fiction.
- Philip Womack in The New Humanist, on Karl Ove Knausgaard's A Death In The Family

A reasonable point, though clearly not what that means. Still, nobody to blame but the publisher for letting such a dicey descriptor make it onto the shelves. (I predict at least one lawsuit.)

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