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Synopsis
Collecting Thomas Farber's nonfiction on writing and the writing life, A Lover's Quarrel contains this gifted author's meditation on his vocation. Anatomist, ironist, and moralist, Farber achieves effects of luminous integrity with deceptively simple means. A gift to writers who seek to understand what informs and haunts their métier, A Lover's Quarrel is also for any readers whose lives have been shaped-or saved-by story.
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About the Author
THOMAS FARBER teaches at the University of California, Berkeley and is the publisher of El León Literary Arts.
Review
"...an amiable and lively account...Allusive, anecdotal...also admirably unsententious." -- The New York Times
"...pieces of verbal lacery stitched together into a balanced, lovely, delicately patterned whole." -- Kirkus Reviews
"It's like listening to a preternaturally articulate, well-read, inventive person think aloud...by turns a diary, a reading journal..." -- Phyllis Rose, author of
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- PublisherEllsberg Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0978869923
- ISBN 13 9780978869922
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages268
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