How to Write a Sentence, Stanley Fish
How to Write a Sentence, Stanley Fish
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How to Write a Sentence
And How to Read One

Author: Stanley Fish

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 03/21/2023

Synopsis

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.” —SlateIn 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.

About Stanley Fish

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathrina on January 27, 2011

If it weren't for goodreads, I could imagine that no one else on earth would find the near fetish-like pleasure I found in this tiny little book. I cherished this thing like a teenage boy oggles over a centerfold, privately, under the covers, with a yellow glow from my bedside lamp, deconstructing s......more

Goodreads review by Mike on June 13, 2011

Although an occasional worthwhile pearl sprang from the author's ponderously pedantic prose, by mid-exposition I found it so tedious to wade through the mire of words, words, words and pseudo-erudite opinions couched as fact, just to seek those few pearls, that I resorted to mere skimming of paragra......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 11, 2011

PB (in rabble-rousing mode) : Gimme a GH as in “enough”! Crowd of drunken Goodreaders : “GH!” PB : Gimme an O like in “women”! Crowd: O! PB : Gimme a TI like in “station”! Crowd : TI!! PB : What’s that spell? Crowd : GHOTI! GHOTI!! PB : Yeah, but what does it sound like? Crowd : FISH! FISH! FISH! One of the b......more

Goodreads review by Roxanna on April 07, 2013

This gets 2 stars because I enjoyed the first portion of the book wherein we explore what makes a good sentence and what makes a great one. I found the exercises mentioned to be helpful and a few of the key points he made to be illuminating. However as a whole it seemed to lack thoroughness. Fish ma......more

Goodreads review by M.G. on May 19, 2011

"Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences." I never thought I would read a book entitled How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One; even less did I think I would enjoy one. Yet, here I am and I can do no other. Stanley Fish writes a book in whi......more

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