How to Write a Sentence - by Stanley Fish (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Fish appreciates fine sentences. The "New York Times" columnist and world-class professor offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader).<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>New York Times </em>Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong><em>"</em>Both deeper and more democratic than<em> The Elements of Style" - Adam Haslett, Financial Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." - <em>Slate</em></strong></p><p><strong>"Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop."<br/> --Roy Blount Jr.</strong></p><p>In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, <em>How to Write a Sentence </em>is much more than a writing manual--it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.</p><p><br/> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The <em>New York Times</em> columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language. Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play.</p> <p>In this entertaining and erudite gem, Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). <em>How to Write a Sentence</em> is both a spirited love letter to the written word and a key to understanding how great writing works; it is a book that will stand the test of time.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Fish's] approach is genially experiential--a lifelong reader's engagement whose amatory enthusiasm is an attempt to overthrow Strunk & White's infamous insistences on grammar by rote."--New York Observer<br><br>"[Fish] shares his connoisseurship of the elegant sentence."--The New Yorker<br><br>"A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."--Slate<br><br>"A sentence is, in John Donne's words, 'a little world made cunningly, ' writes Fish. He'll teach you the art."--People<br><br>"Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style."--Financial Times<br><br>"How to Write a Sentence is a compendium of syntactic gems--light reading for geeks."--New York magazine<br><br>"How to Write a Sentence isn't merely a prescriptive guide to the craft of writing but a rich and layered exploration of language as an evolving cultural organism. It belongs not on the shelf of your home library but in your brain's most deep-seated amphibian sensemaking underbelly."--Maria Popova, Brain Pickings<br><br>"In this small feast of a book Stanley Fish displays his love of the English sentence. His connoisseurship is broad and deep, his examples are often breathtaking, and his analyses of how the masterpieces achieve their effects are acute and compelling."--New Republic<br><br>"Stanley Fish just might be America's most famous professor."--BookPage<br><br>"This splendid little volume describes how the shape of a sentence controls its meaning."--Boston Globe<br>
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