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Condición: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condición: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Soft cover. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition 2009. 420pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in AS NEW condition. "Never before collected in a single volume, the essays in THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY feature lively discussions of great literature by some of the most prominent authors of all time. Editor J. C. Hallman has pored through countless collected essays of notable authors, searching for pieces in which the author approaches literature from a personal angle. The results are a fantastic, provocative, intelligent, and, at times, hilarious discussion of literature and life. With over thirty essays written by authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf to Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, this collection offers an invaluable course on literature as well as a look into 'Creative Criticism,' a form of critical essay that involves a personal perspective. Writers such as William Gass, Wallace Stegner, Albert Camus, Milan Kundera, Susan Sontag, James Wood, E. B. White, Herman Hesse, Cynthia Ozick, Walter Kirn, and Michael Chabon discuss the work of such luminaries as Marcel Proust, J. D. Salinger, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Malcolm Lowry, T. S. Eliot, Anton Chekhov, Robert Lowell, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Henry David Thoreau, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, and John Steinbeck." [publisher copy] "An invaluable guide for any reader of literature, as well as for the practitioners themselves. Reading Lawrence on Melville, Heaney on Eliot, Milosz on Frost, and Camus on Melville will reveal the nut of the art."--Daniel Halpern. "All great criticism begins with love. After all, we read books not from obligation but for pleasure, for mental excitement, for what A.E. Housman called the tingle at the back of the neck. In THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY there are no merely literary essays: instead J.C. Hallman has gathered love letters, exuberant appreciations, confessions of envy and admiration. In these pages some of our finest writers stand up and testify to the power of literature to shake and shape our very souls."--Michael Dirda. Pristine paperback w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable.…