bookception
Noun
A work of fiction (especially a novel) featuring a frame story or metanarrative structure.
Usage- Slang
- Examples
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“The Words” offers too many “stories,” and this “bookception” fails to offer a seamless serious drama.
This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot.
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After I finished “Outrun the Moon,” it took me two weeks to realize the extent of Lee’s book-ception. In a twist on par with Möbius or Escher, “The Book for Business-Minded Women” describes not only Mrs. Lowry’s book, but Lee’s as well.
Word forms
bookceptionsbook-ception