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The Nearest Thing to Life (Mandel Center for the Humanities Lectures)
The Nearest Thing to Life - Mandel Center for the Humanities Lectures
Author: James Wood
In this remarkable blend of memoir and criticism, James Wood, noted contributor to the New Yorker, has written a master class on the connections between fiction and life. He argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion. Th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781611687415
ISBN-10: 1611687411
Publication Date: 6/2/2015
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Brandeis
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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