Finding a Form
Subtitle: Essays
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780801484896
Subjects: Cultural studies; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays; General
First sentence: It is not a serious novelist's nightmare (the possibility is so absurd); nevertheless, suppose you fancied yourself a serious novelist (a writer, as they say, of the first rank), and a wire were delivered in your dream (the telephone rang, there was a sudden knock), and this were followed by the formal announcement that you, Julia Peterkin, or you, Marjorie Rawlings, or you, Allen Drury or Michael Shaara or Alison Lurie, had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 1929 or '39 or '60 or '75 or '85.