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A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence--from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion--this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

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  • Title Suppose a Sentence
  • Author Brian Dillon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review of Books
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781681375243 / 1681375249
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 14.48 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Sentences, English language - Rhetoric
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020011251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.042

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2020, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/06/2020, Page 0

About the author

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze, and Artforum. He is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London.
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