Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.
Pages - 150
Binding - Paperback
Publisher - Fitzcarraldo Editions
Publication Date - 2021-04-06
ISBN - 9781913097011
Weight - 261 grams