{"product_id":"living-by-fiction-9780060915445","title":"Living by Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautiful repackaging of Annie Dillard's classic work of literary criticism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, and like these two items, it's over much too soon.\" -- Carolyn See, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiving by Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction \u003cem\u003ematters \u003c\/em\u003eand how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Readers of\u003cem\u003e Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHoly the Firm \u003c\/em\u003ewill recognize Dillard's vivid writing, her humor, and the lively way she tackles the urgent questions of meaning in experience itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060915445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.33w x 0.47d","brand":"Annie Dillard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43228245655733,"sku":"9780060915445","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_10fb407c-a834-4cef-9c26-634f213faeb1.jpg?v=1698722828","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/living-by-fiction-9780060915445","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}