The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Jane Smiley

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Heyday, 2023

1597146056 / 9781597146050

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256 pages. One of California's leading writers, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, presents her first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005's best-selling Thirt een Ways of Looking at the Novel. n nSmiley gives educators, readers, and writer s much to discuss. Highly recommended. -Library Journal, starred review n nLine for line, Smiley delivers such clear, vibrant, precise prose-handed forth as cal mly and equitably as an ice cream cone, even when she's incensed-that a reader f eels smarter just taking it in. -The Boston Globe n nLong acclaimed as one of Am erica's preeminent novelists, Jane Smiley is also an unparalleled observer of th e craft of writing. In The Questions That Matter Most this Pulitzer Prize-winnin g writer offers steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultu ral issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Beginning with a personal introduction tracing Smiley's migration from Iowa to California, the author reflects on her findings in the varied literature of the Golden Stat e, whose writers have for decades litigated the West's contested legacies of rac ism, class conflict, and sexual politics through their pens. n nAs she considers the ambiguity of character and the weight of history, her essays provide new en try points into literature, and we lucky readers can see how Smiley draws inspir ation from across the literary spectrum to invigorate her own writing. With enth usiasm and meticulous attention, Smiley dives beneath surface-level interpretati ons to examine the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trol lope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldr Laxness, and Jessica Mitford. Throughout, Smiley seeks to think ha.…

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Titolo
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
Autore
Jane Smiley
Editore
Heyday
Anno di pubblicazione
2023
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1597146056
ISBN 13
9781597146050
Dimensioni
14.7cm x 21.6cm x 3.0cm
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