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"New York Times Bestseller ""Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style"" --Adam Haslett, Financial Times ""A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."" --Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual--it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time."

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A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language. -- Slate Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing. -- Booklist This splendid little volume describes how the shape of a sentence controls its meaning. -- Boston Globe

"""A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language."" -- ""Slate"" ""Language lovers will flock to this homage to great writing."" -- ""Booklist"" ""This splendid little volume describes how the shape of a sentence controls its meaning."" -- ""Boston Globe"""

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Stanley Fish is a professor of law at Florida International University in Miami, and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, and Duke University. He is the author of fourteen books, most recently Fugitive in Flight and Save the World on Your Own Time. He lives in Andes, New York, and New York City. Rick Adamson is an Audie Award winner for his work on In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy (with Sally Jenkins) of The Blind Side fame. Also the winner of several ALA awards and a Harper Audio Grammy nominee, Rick has been narrating fiction and nonfiction as well as corporate and educational projects for twenty-five years. Originally from Maryland, he now lives in northern New Jersey, where he and his wife have raised three sons.

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