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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.
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"Dillon approaches language like a child outdoors before indifference has kicked in."
"In this delightful literary ramble, Dillon (Essayism), a creative writing professor at Queen Mary University of London, expounds upon remarkable sentences from a variety of voices in literature, past and present."
"Essayist and critic Brian Dillon is in thrall to sentences."
"Elsewhere, though, Dillon loosens his belt to include excerpts that are a good deal more sprawling ..."
"Dillon also has an eye for the strange little choices others may overlook ..."
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