num_pages: 192
description: Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay - asking what happens and where one might wander when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us - and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays each taking a single sentence as its starting point the book explores style voice and context. But it also uses its subjects - from George Eliot to Joan Didion John Donne to Annie Dillard - to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.
language: English
title: Suppose a Sentence
publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions