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23%OFFStanley Fish - How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One - 9780061840531 - 9780061840531
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

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Description for How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One paperback. If you know sentences, you know everything. Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world. This title offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBW; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
If you know sentences, you know everything. Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world. Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. "The New York Times" columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language: I am always on the lookout for sentences that take your breath away, for sentences that make you say, 'Isn't that something?' or What a sentence! Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061840531
SKU
9780061840531
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99-1

About Stanley Fish
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 ... Read more

Reviews for How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style."
Financial Times "A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."
Slate "[Fish] shares his connoisseurship of the elegant sentence."
The New Yorker "Stanley Fish just might be America's most famous professor."
BookPage "How to Write a Sentence is a ... Read more

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