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The questions that matter most : reading, writing, and the exercise of freedom / Jane Smiley.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.M39 Z46 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smiley, Jane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smiley, Jane.
- Smiley, Jane--Books and reading.
- Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Novelists, American--21st century--Biography.
- Authorship.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Literary criticism.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 243 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- My Absent Father
- Iceland Made Me
- Can Mothers Think?
- The Most Important Question
- Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, Gives Desdemona Some Advice
- The One and Only
- I Am Your 'Prudent Amy'
- Why Go On?
- Say It Ain't So, Huck
- Thoughts on My Ántonia
- Gregor: My Life as a Bug
- Meet Jessica Mitford
- The Other Nancy Mitford
- Laughing to the End
- Farewell, Alice Munro, and Thanks for Everything
- History vs. Historical Fiction
- Reflections on St. Louis
- Writing Is an Exercise in Freedom.
- ISBN:
- 9781597146050
- 1597146056
- OCLC:
- 1338199347
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