True stories
& other essays
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Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetruestoriesother0000spuf
- ISBN-100300230052
- ISBN-139780300230055
- Library of Congress Control Number2017021076
- OCLC Control Number982652298
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780300230055
- Open LibraryOL26932017M
Classifications
- DDC814/.6
- LCCPR6119.P84 A6 2017
- LCCPR6119.P84
Alternate Titles
- True stories
Description
"Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on"--
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- True stories: & other essays
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