{"product_id":"living-by-fiction-isbn-9780060915445","title":"Living by Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eeven fraudulently\u003c\/strong\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eessays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon.\" —\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving by Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis written for—and dedicated to—people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows how contemporary fiction works and why traditional fiction will always move us. Like Joyce Cary's \u003cem\u003eArt and Reality\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. Readers of\u003cem\u003e Pilgrim at Tinker Creek \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHoly the Firm \u003c\/em\u003ewill recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving by Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction \u003cem\u003ematters\u003c\/em\u003e and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's \u003cem\u003eArt and Reality,\u003c\/em\u003e this is a book by a writer on the issues raised by the art of literature. \u003cem\u003eReaders of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHoly the Firm\u003c\/em\u003e will recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way in which she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically—even fraudulently—essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLiving by Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e is a stimulating book, one of those in which quality of thought and felicity of prose seem consequences of one another.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887416963301,"sku":"NP9780060915445","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060915445.jpg?v=1730226078","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/living-by-fiction-isbn-9780060915445","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}