How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

by Fish, Stanley
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ISBN: 9780061840531
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Overview

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."
--Roy Blount Jr.

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.


  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Fish, Stanley
  • ISBN: 9780061840531
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.40
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2012

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