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Originally Posted by Ea
I think it's too limiting to think we can only apply one label to each book. I don't know the book you mentioned, but I can't see any reason why it's possibly literary as well as historical fiction. "Anathem" is IMHO both sci-fi and literary - as an example. For me it comes down to the quality of the book and its purpose (to entertain, to enlighten, to be an artistic expression), not what genre it is.
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If you're not careful, you guys are going to come full circle to the one and only point I was ever trying to make: the term "literary fiction" is not very helpful in describing a book.
You've just finished a book that you thought was fantastic, insightful, innovative and artistic. When someone inevitably asks you what kind of book it is, how many of you can truthfully say that the very first words out of your mouth will be; "Well, it's literary fiction!" ?