num_pages: 304
description: A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writerOver the course of his career Emmanuel Carrre has reinvented nonfiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him no form is out of reach: Theology historiography reportage and memoir--among many others--are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion curiosity and intellect that has made Carrre one of our most distinctive and important literary voices today.97196 Words introduces Carrre's shorter work to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary texts written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrre's creative life the book shows a remarkable mind at work. Spanning continents histories and personal relationships 97196 Words considers the divides between truth reality and our shared humanity exploring remarkable events and eccentric lives including Carrre's own.
language: English
title: 97,196 Words: Essays
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux