What to read and why
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018].
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First edition.
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xviii, 314 pages ; 22 cm
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction
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0028.9
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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"Written with her sharp critical analysis, wit, and enthusiasm, What to Read and Why is a celebration of literature that will give readers a new appreciation for the power and beauty of the written word. Prose considers why the works of literary masters such as Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Jane Austen have endured, and shares intriguing insights about modern authors whose words stimulate our minds and enlarge our lives, including Roberto Bolaño, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Jennifer Egan, and Mohsin Hamid. Prose implores us to read Mavis Gallant for her marvelously rich and compact sentences, and her meticulously rendered characters who reveal our flawed and complex human nature; Edward St. Aubyn for his elegance and sophisticated humor; and Mark Strand for his gift for depicting unlikely transformations. Here, too, are original pieces in which Prose explores the craft of writing: "On Clarity" and "What Makes a Short Story.""--Amazon.com.

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