2013 saw readers flock to big, 400-plus-page novels like no
other year in recent memory.
Books that spanned decades and continents, and
featured casts of dozens, came into vogue in the middle of — and perhaps as
an antidote to — our fast-paced, Twitter-stream world, where great pieces
of long-form writing vanish from the computer screen almost as fast as
banal Facebook updates from high-school friends.
But it hasn’t just been a
year of literary volume and breadth — it’s also been a year of novels
filled with big ideas, rendered with great panache by some of our finest
writers, resulting in a handful of modern classics that made 2013 a damn
fine year to be a lover of fiction. Continue
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