A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
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h198 x 129mm - 432pg
19 Apr 2022 UK
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9781526624246
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to liveIn A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he' s been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it' s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches each of these stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. For the process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is as much a craft as it is a quality of openness and a willingness to see the world through new eyes. Funny, frank, and rigorous, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain ultimately shows how great fiction can change a person' s life and become a benchmark of one' s moral and ethical beliefs.
Praise for George Saunders: A morally passionate, serious writer . . . He will be read long after these times have passed -- ZADIE SMITH George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time -- KHALED HOSSEINI What warm, kindhearted and radical writing. Such delicacy, such serious wit. I love it -- MAX PORTER Reading George Saunders is, it' s safe to say, like no other literary experience * OBSERVER * He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We' re lucky to have him -- JONATHAN FRANZEN No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised -- MICHIKO KAKUTANI * NEW YORK TIMES * Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does -- JUNOT DIAZ A luminous feat of generosity and humanism -- COLSON WHITEHEAD * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * Saunders is a true original - restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane -- JENNIFER EGAN Surreal and puncturing -- MARGARET ATWOOD Funny, poignant - in flashes, deeply moving - light as a feather and consistently weird -- HARI KUNZRU
George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize and the Premio Rezzori prize, which was also shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the world' s 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. georgesaundersbooks. com
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781526624246
Published: 19 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Weight: 350g
Pages: 432

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