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The Nearest Thing To Life

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Nearest Thing To Life

By James Wood

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About the book

Argues that, of all the arts, fiction has a unique ability to describe the shape of our lives, and to rescue the texture of those lives from death and historical oblivion.

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ISBN

9780224102049

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Published year

2015

Language

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1

Original title

The Nearest Thing To Life

Format

Hardcover

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