Living by Fiction
by Dillard, Annie
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060149604
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149604
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Last Word Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210436584
- Title
- Living by Fiction
- Author
- Dillard, Annie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060149604
- ISBN 13
- 9780060149604
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982-01-01
- Size
- 8x5x1
- Keywords
- writing, books & reading, literary criticism, semiotics
- X weight
- 14 oz
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