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In his well-written seven-chapter volume on contemporary novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, Hywel Dix takes the all-together new and original path of examining at the late-career works of established and highly-acclaimed authors. Dr. K. Ferreira-Meyers, Coordinator Linguistics and Modern Languages/Literature Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland, Swaziland In The Late-Career Novelist, Hywel Dix demonstrates that the figure of the author is well and truly alive and kicking in the twenty-first century. Through readings of the works of A. S. Byatt, Haruki Murakami, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and others, The Late-Career Novelist shows that studying a writer's late work provides knowledge into more than just the career and self-retrospect of an individual author. Late career writings, often self-conscious and self-critical, offer insight into the figure of the author, the reciprocity or reading and writing, and the function of contemporary literature in the social world. Dr. Alison Gibbons, Reader in Contemporary Stylistics, Sheffield Hallam University

In his well-written seven-chapter volume on contemporary novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, Hywel Dix takes the all-together new and original path of examining at the late-career works of established and highly-acclaimed authors. Dr. K. Ferreira-Meyers, Coordinator Linguistics and Modern Languages/Literature Institute of Distance Education, University of Swaziland, Swaziland In The Late-Career Novelist, Hywel Dyx demonstrates that the figure of the author is well and truly alive and kicking in the twenty-first century. Through readings of the works of A. S. Byatt, Haruki Murakami, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and others, The Late-Career Novelist shows that studying a writer's late work provides knowledge into more than just the career and self-retrospect of an individual author. Late career writings, often self-conscious and self-critical, offer insight into the figure of the author, the reciprocity or reading and writing, and the function of contemporary literature in the social world. Dr. Alison Gibbons, Reader in Contemporary Stylistics, Sheffield Hallam University

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Hywel Dix is Principal Lecturer in English and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. His previous books include Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (Bloomsbury, 2010).

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