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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060910445
ISBN-139780060910440
eBay Product ID (ePID)48945235
Product Key Features
Publication Year1983
TopicGeneral
Book TitleLiving by Fiction
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorAnnie Dillard
FormatMass Market
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN81-047882
SynopsisLiving by Fiction is written for - and dedicated to - people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and Holy the Firm will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself. Book jacket.