| Selected Essays Contributor(s): Blaise, Clark (Author), Metcalf, John (Editor), Struthers (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1897231504 ISBN-13: 9781897231500 Publisher: Biblioasis OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short-story writers in the last 50 years. His "Selected Essays" bring together for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre, belles-lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadian heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers as Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud, his friend and mentor. His essays on literary craft and technique are essential reading for aspiring writers and for readers eager for knowledge of literature's nuts-and-bolts. Always elegant, profound, thought-provoking and contrarian, Blaise's essays grapple with the themes and preoccupations that have animated his fiction, and give us a more intimate understanding of the work of this most modern of North American writers. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.88 lbs) 280 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers and Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud, his friend and mentor. |