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Columbia University Press "Jenny Davidson has the rare gift of being warmly analytical -- highly intelligent but never mandarin, authoritative and intimate at the same time" -- Rebecca Mead, author of My Life in Middlemarch Read an excerpt    Read an interview with Jenny Davidson     Jenny Davidson picks her  10 favorites books on reading   Jenny Davidson on the books on hoarding    Jenny Davidson on the Glimmer Factor in fiction     Reviews     Table of Contents  Reading Style A Life in Sentences                Jenny Davidson        Order Now and Save 30%! To save 30%, add the book to your shopping cart, and enter code READAV in the "Coupon Code" field at check out.*    The e-book of  Reading Style is available wherever e-books are sold!   A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences that turn reading into a highly personal and political act. Melding her experiences as reader and critic, Davidson opens new vistas onto works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Thomas Pynchon; adds richer dimension to critiques of W. G. Sebald, Alan Hollinghurst, Thomas Bernhard, and Karl Ove Knausgaard; and allows for a sophisticated appreciation of popular fictions by Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lionel Shriver, George Pelecanos, and Helen DeWitt. She privileges diction, syntax, point of view, and structure over plot and character, identifying the intimate mechanics that draw us in to literature's sensual frameworks and move us to feel, identify, and relate. Order Now and Save 30%!   $25.00 $17.50 Use discount code READAV at check-out Cloth | 208 pages | £17.50   FOLLOW COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS:

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