How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

Fish, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0061840548 / ISBN 13: 9780061840548

Published by Harper (edition unknown), 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
• Publisher: Harper (edition unknown)
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061840548
• ISBN 13: 9780061840548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: unknown.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

 

About the Author

Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City.