Fish Stanley - How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: New York Times Bestseller Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style Adam Haslett Financial Times A guided tour through some of the most beautiful arresting sentences in the English language. Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem world - class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Like a seasoned sportscaster Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels giving readers an instant play - by - play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual it is a spirited love letter to the written word and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.
Title: How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One
Author(s): Fish Stanley
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780061840531
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 8/7/2012
Category: Literary Studies: General