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The nearest thing to life /

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 tho...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, James, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2015.
Colección:Mandel Lectures in the Humanities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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