
Short Takes
Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
Judith Kitchen(Editor)
W. W. Norton & Company (Publisher)
Published on 17. July 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-393-32600-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss-and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers-Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams-along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short-whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written-invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-32600-0 (9780393326000)
Schweitzer Classification