SUPPOSE A SENTENCE

Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an e xperiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay m inute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taki ng a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to ...[Read more]