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New York TimesBestseller
Both deeper and more democratic thanThe Elements of Style Adam Haslett, Financial Times
A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language. Slate
Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop.
Roy Blount Jr.
In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen,How to Write a Sentenceis much more than a writing manualit is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works.
