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Suppose a Sentence

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Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard - to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Release: August 18, 2020

ISBN: 1913097013

ISBN 13: 9781913097011

Suppose a Sentence

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard - to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Release: August 18, 2020

ISBN: 1913097013

ISBN 13: 9781913097011

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