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A collection of nonfiction essays on such topics as culture, myth, history, romance, and sex includes contributions by such authors as Guy Davenport, Annie Dillard, Jamaica Kincaid, and Susan Sontag. In this singular collection, John D'Agata takes a literary tour of lyric essays written by the masters of the craft. Beginning with 1975 and John McPhee's ingenious piece, the Search for Marvin Gardens, D'Agata selects an example of creative nonfiction for each subsequent year. These essays are unrestrained, elusive, explosive, mysterious, a personal lingual playground. They encompass and illuminate culture, myth, history, romance, and sex. Each essay is a world of its own, a world so distinctive it resists definition. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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- Much like the other McPhee I've read, I remain profoundly unmoved. I recognize the stylishness and economy and telling silences of his prose, but there often seems little behind it, save, as here, a truthfully silly premise that fails to do more than tangentially connect his two thematic threads. So, some clean, far from pretty, writing, given to dull pronouncements.