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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
from: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.508
EAN: 9780393314922
ISBN: 0393314928
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 334
Publication Date: 1996-07
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Rating:  - Enjoyable.
Here's my quibble, and it's a quibble against the genre more than this book: I'm not sure how I feel about the 'short'. (I know, so why'd I buy the dang book?) Part of me distrusts the genre as pandering to the ever-shrinking attention spans of our culture. We get our news in disconnected soundbytes, the average news story is 30 seconds long...you know the 'crabby old timer' diatribe. So, I'm ambivalent about the genre.
That being said, this is a great book. It has consoled me that ... Read More
Rating:  - A Never-Ending Parade of Lightweights
I can't figure out why the editors and publishers of this volume are claiming it to be a celebration of a new art form. Brief creative nonfiction? Hardly. Some of the pieces here could be called creative, but absolutely none of them are nonfiction. Nonfiction is the study of issues or phenomena with evidence and analysis. Here we have a collection of what everyone else in the world calls memoirs, and which have been easily found for decades in magazines and newspapers. While such works can be a relaxing ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't miss this inspiring collection
Whether you're a reader, a writer, or a dabbler, you'll surely find plenty in this lovely collection to please your mind and lighten your spirit. Not one of the essays is longer than 2000 words, and many are only a paragraph or three in length. Yet each is a little sparkling gem, a nugget of pure gold. There's one by Kathleen Norris (already known for her lyrical spiritual writing) about rain that just takes the breath away. Each, in some small way, connects us to the common pulse of humanity running through ... Read More
Rating: - A truly collaborative work of art
So many of the stories in this book are just so poignant, so special, so.... ! They are like individual little works of art.
Rating: - Best collection of nonfiction I ever read--inspiring.
I could not put this book down. An aspiring writer, it filled me with fire to get back to writing in my journal--noting details of the day's people and events with new passion and belief in my own observations. So many of the pieces in the book are wondrous, but I especially liked INTO THE STORM by Jerry Ellis which is from his book, WALKING THE TRAIL, about his 900 mile walk along the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
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