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97,196 Words: Essays

$56.00

97,196 Words: Essays

SKU: 9780374178208 Category: Product ID: 61249

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Title: 97,196 Words: Essays
Author: CARRERE EMMANUEL
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 05/11/2019
Imprint: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Price: $56.00
Publishing status: Active

A selection of the best short work by France’s greatest living nonfiction writer

No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrere. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carrere has, over the course of his career, reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre, he takes what he needs from every available form or discipline–be it theology, historiography, fiction, reportage, or memoir–and fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, intellect, and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness, Carrere stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.

97,196 Words introduces Carrere’s shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carrere’s creative life, this collection shows an exceptional mind at work. Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, and treating everything from American heroin addicts to the writing of In Cold Blood, from the philosophy of Philip K. Dick to a single haunting sentence in a minor story by H. P. Lovecraft, from Carrere’s own botched interview with Catherine Deneuve to the week he spent following the future French president Emmanuel Macron, 97,196 Words considers the divides between truth, reality, and our shared humanity as it explores remarkable events and eccentric lives, including Carrere’s own.

ISBN: 9780374178208
Weight: 408g
Dimension: 213mm X 137mm
Pages: 304

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Weight 408 g
Dimensions 213 × 137 mm