In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction

Jones, Mary Paumier

ISBN 10: 0393314928 / ISBN 13: 9780393314922

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00081461784

Riassunto:

Something is going on out there. Almost simultaneously, many of our finest writers are experimenting with a new nonfiction form: brief pieces that are literary and personal rather than informational, complete in themselves, and short—very short. Although the form has not had a name until now, the writers who are attracted to it include the known—Tim O'Brien, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Ondaatje—as well as just-discovered voices in the field of creative nonfiction, a genre that is transforming the essay.Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of Shorts. From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds, to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia, to Albert Goldbarth's free-wheeling riff on the universe, each Short—ranging from several paragraphs to 2,000 words—becomes a sharply focused lens on an outer world or an inner sensibility.In Short

Product Description: Delights and surprises await the reader in this rich gathering of "Shorts" (ranging from several paragraphs to 2,000 words). From Diane Ackerman's fascination with hummingbirds to Andrei Codrescu's idiosyncratic view of nostalgia to Albert Goldbarth's free-wheeling riff on the universe, each Short becomes a sharply focused lens on an outer world or an inner sensibility.

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Titolo: In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good