| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One Contributor(s): Fish, Stanley (Author) |
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ISBN: 006184053X ISBN-13: 9780061840531 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Reading Skills |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2010033166 |
| Lexile Measure: 1270 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New York Times Bestseller "Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style" - Adam Haslett, Financial Times "A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language." - Slate "Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop." 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, How to Write a Sentence 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.
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Contributor Bio(s): Fish, Stanley: - Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City. |