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ISBN: 9781984856029

Book Title: Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

Item Length: 11.8in

Original Language: Russian

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2021

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 3.7in

Author: George Saunders

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

Topic: Study & Teaching, Short Stories, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, Russian & Former Soviet Union

Item Width: 8.6in

Item Weight: 24.4 Oz

Number of Pages: 432 Pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the 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. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage - "[A] worship song to writers and readers."-- Oprah Daily 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

ISBN-10

1984856022

ISBN-13

9781984856029

eBay Product ID (ePID)

27050395514

Product Key Features

Book Title

Swim in a Pond in the Rain : In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

Author

George Saunders

Original Language

Russian

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Study & Teaching, Short Stories, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, Russian & Former Soviet Union

Publication Year

2021

Genre

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

Number of Pages

432 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

11.8in

Item Height

3.7in

Item Width

8.6in

Item Weight

24.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Pg3097.S28 2021

Reviews

Praise for George Saunders "Nothing has been read its last rites more frequently than the American short story. George Saunders proves, yet again, to be the form's one-man defibrillator." --Harper's Magazine "No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time." --Khaled Hosseini "One of the most gifted, wickedly entertaining story writers around." --The New York Times Book Review "Subversive, hilarious, and emotionally piercing . . . Few writers can encompass that range of adjectives, but Saunders is a true original--restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane." --Jennifer Egan "The best short-story writer in English--not 'one of,' not 'arguably,' but the Best." --Mary Karr, Time Praise for Lincoln in the Bardo "It's not like anything anyone has written before. The author may have set out to write his first novel, but the work he completed is a genre unto itself." --The Atlantic "A luminous feat of generosity and humanism." --Colson Whitehead, The New York Times Book Review "Depicts a ferocious, keenly felt, and sometimes comic struggle. . . . Lincoln in the Bardo has great matters on its mind: freedom and slavery, the spirit and the body." --Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker "A strikingly original production . . . that confounds our expectations of what a novel should look and sound like." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Fans of Saunders's stories--some of the most original work in American history--have craved this book for a long time, and he has not disappointed. Saunders has disassembled the novel as a form and put it back together in a fascinating shape." --John Freeman, The Boston Globe

Target Audience

Trade

Lccn

2020-031045

Dewey Decimal

891.73009

Dewey Edition

Illustrated

Yes

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