James Wood is back

[Jerome Park]

>
> By fixing on humdrum domestic details, novels, he says, redeem life and
> rescue it from its sad ephemerality; a book is not solitary, like the
> person who reads it, but dispenses “proximity, fellow-feeling, compassion,
> communion”.


Humdrum domestic details?
Is this what novels fix on?

What of Romance, Gothic, Sensationalism....?
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