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Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to ''live the life of the mind'' should read this book. It''s elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it''s over much too soon. —Los Angeles Times

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard''s classic work of literary criticism

Living by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to—people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, 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 recogni

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/01/2000
      ISBN13: 9780060915445, 978-0060915445
      ISBN10: 0060915447

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      Book Synopsis

      Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to ''live the life of the mind'' should read this book. It''s elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it''s over much too soon. —Los Angeles Times

      Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard''s classic work of literary criticism

      Living by Fiction is written for—and dedicated to—people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, 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 recogni

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