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
"Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop."
--Roy Blount Jr.
In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. 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.
Author: Stanley Fish
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 08/07/2012
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9780061840531
ISBN10: 006184053X
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing | General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Reading Skills