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020 $a9781611687415$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
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050 00 $aPR55.W55$bA3 2015
082 00 $a801/.95092$223
100 1 $aWood, James,$d1965-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe nearest thing to life /$cJames Wood.
264 1 $aWaltham, Massachusetts :$bBrandeis University Press,$c[2015]
300 $a134 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aMandel lectures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aIn 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. The act of reading is understood here as the most sacred and personal of activities, and there are brilliant discussions of individual works--among others, Chekhov's story "The Kiss," W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower.
600 10 $aWood, James,$d1965-
650 0 $aCritics$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
830 0 $aMandel lectures.
852 00 $bglx$hPR55.W55$iA3 2015