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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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"Explaining he has 45 notebooks filled with favorite sentences, Dillon focuses each of the book's 27 essays on a different one ..."
"Dillon approaches language like a child outdoors before indifference has kicked in."
"an absorbing defence of literary originality and interpretation."
"For a quarter of a century, he tells us in his marvelous new book, he has been collecting them, in 'the back pages of whatever notebook I happen to be using,' the way, we might add, Vladimir Nabokov collected butterflies, with analytic passion and sustained wonderment ..."
"Dillon demonstrates that reading out of love, lingering over cherished sentences, can draw out an astonishing wealth of material ..."
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