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97,196 Words: Essays
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John Lambert
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9780374178208
A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carr re 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, Carr re stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices. 97,196 Words introduces Carr re's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carr re'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 Carr re'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 Carr re's own.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: John Lambert, Emmanuel CarrèrePublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 11/05/2019ISBN: 9780374178208Pages: 304Weight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 98

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

No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carr re 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, Carr re stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.

97,196 Words introduces Carr re's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carr re'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 Carr re'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 Carr re's own.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John Lambert, Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/05/2019
ISBN: 9780374178208
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 98

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

No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carr re 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, Carr re stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.

97,196 Words introduces Carr re's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carr re'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 Carr re'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 Carr re's own.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: John Lambert, Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 11/05/2019
ISBN: 9780374178208
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 98