Alex Preston

You couldn’t make it up

Alexander Chee explains the mysterious process by which the chaotic facts of an abused childhood became his elegant debut novel, Edinburgh

  • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

    Alexander Chee

    Bloomsbury, pp. 280

  • Edinburgh

    Alexander Chee

    Bloomsbury, pp. 228

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