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First edition. The Trick is to Keep Breathing is the first novel from the writer Janice Galloway.It was first published in the United Kingdom by Polygon in 1989. The novel won the MIND/Allen Lane Book of the Year and was also shortlisted for both the Whitbread First Novel and Scottish First Book awards.
Literary fiction is often used as a synonym for literature, in the exclusive sense of writings specifically considered to have considerable artistic merit. [6] Literary fiction is commonly regarded as artistically superior to genre fiction , the latter being a form of commercial fiction written to provide entertainment to a mass audience .
Writing for The New York Times, Barbara Kingsolver says the "novel [is] so readably juicy and surreptitiously smart [that] it deserves all the attention it can get." [ 3 ] Ron Charles , writing for The Washington Post , remarks that "Fowler manages to subsume any polemical motive within an unsettling, emotionally complex story."
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
For example, in Laurence Sterne's novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, the narrator is using the sentimental character Yorick as a device to critique the obligation of morality, whether it is sentimental or rational. There is a scene early in the novel where Yorick meets a monk and refuses "to give him a single sous [a penny]."
Ray Bradbury, pictured in 2009, writer of Zen in the Art of Writing. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity is a collection of essays by Ray Bradbury and published in 1990. [1] The unifying theme is Bradbury's love for writing. Essays included are: The Joy of Writing (1973) [1]
The novel received positive reviews at the time of publication, [2] and has continued to receive praise in the following decades. [3] American author Paul Lisicky has said he "fell in love" with the book while attending graduate school and that it influenced his own novel, Lawnboy. [4]
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