[Pdf/ePub] The Questions That Matter Most:

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom by Jane Smiley

• The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom
• Jane Smiley
• Page: 256
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781597146364
• Publisher: Heyday

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Now in paperback, Pulitzer-winning novelist Jane Smiley's first nonfiction volume on writing since 2005’s best-selling Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. "Smiley gives educators, readers, and writers much to discuss. Highly recommended." —Library Journal, starred review "Line for line, Smiley delivers such clear, vibrant, precise prose—handed forth as calmly and equitably as an ice cream cone, even when she’s incensed—that a reader feels smarter just taking it in." —The Boston Globe Long acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent novelists, Jane Smiley is also an exquisite observer of the craft of writing. In The Questions That Matter Most this Pulitzer Prize–winning writer offers penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark any serious engagement with reading and writing. Beginning with a personal introduction tracing Smiley's migration from Iowa to California, the author reflects on her findings in the varied literature of the Golden State, whose writers have for decades pondered the West's contested legacies of racism, class conflict, and sexual politics. As she considers the ambiguity of character and the weight of history, her essays provide fresh entry points into literature, and we lucky readers can see how Smiley draws inspiration from across the literary spectrum to invigorate her own writing. With enthusiasm and meticulous attention, Smiley dives beneath surface-level interpretations to examine the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldór Laxness, and Jessica Mitford. Throughout, Smiley seeks to think harder and, in her words, with "more clarity and nuance" about the questions that matter most.

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