In Fiction
Hope Grant is featured in George McDonald Fraser's Flashman series of novels. In the novels Flashman describes Grant as being one of the most formidable soldiers of his day and the deadliest fighter alive as well as being an eccentric and 'unnerving' character. He speaks in barked one-word sentences.
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“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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