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Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Swim in a Pond in the RainCondition: NewSubtitle: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoISBN-10: 1526624249EAN: 9781526624246ISBN: 9781526624246Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/19/2022Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021‘This book is a delight, and it’s about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment’ Tessa Hadley________________From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 350gAuthor: George SaundersGenre: Language & ReferenceTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Publication Name: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Title: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Subtitle: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling aut

ISBN-10: 1526624249

EAN: 9781526624246

ISBN: 9781526624246

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback

Release Date: 04/19/2022

Release Year: 2022

Language: English

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Item Height: 198mm

Item Length: 129mm

Item Weight: 350g

Author: George Saunders

Genre: Language & Reference

Topic: Literary Criticism

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