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Suppose a Sentence

Suppose a Sentence

Dillon, Brian

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ISBN10: 1681375249
ISBN13: 9781681375243
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 22 2020
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence--from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion--this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

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