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We continue our presentation of Paul West's nearly universal literary interests with this third collection: a baker's dozen of essays -- with such intriguing titles as "Remembrance of Things Proust," "Middle River Stump Jump," "A Vision of Bright Cannon-Fodder," "Tan Salaam and the Aga Khan," and "Thomas Mann, Englishman" -- along with an ample section of quick takes on Abish, Barth, Vollmann, Alvarez, Genet, Beckett, Lessing, Ghose, and some twenty more. As with his earlier volumes of Sheer Fiction, half the pleasure of reading West's belles lettres is the discovery of several writers' works you've never read, and which you're thereafter compelled to plunge into with abandon. The other half, of course, is the pleasure of reading a master stylist with language and wit at his complete command.
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- Title Sheer Fiction: Volume Three
- Author Paul West
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McPherson, Kingston, New York, U.S.A.
- Date October 15, 1994
- ISBN 9780929701387 / 0929701380
- Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 814
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Citations
- Booklist, 08/01/1994, Page 2017
- Library Journal, 08/01/1994, Page 87
- Publishers Weekly, 07/11/1994, Page 72
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