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Author Fish, Stanley

Title How to Write a Sentence And How to Read One
Published New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (91 p.)
Summary "Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop." -Roy Blount Jr. "Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing." -Booklist Outspoken New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers an entertaining, erudite analysis of language and rhetoric in this delightful celebration of the written word. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen and beyond, Fish's How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual-it is a penetrating exploration into the art and craft of sentenc
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780062006851
0062006851