Brian Dillon - Suppose a Sentence Social 22 × 29 cm

22  × 29 cm

Contempt and pity

Reissued twenty years later

she fashions experimental models of what might be to come

sustained by the ragtag community of the road

Brian Dillon - Suppose a Sentence Social 22 × 29 cmIn Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion the book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the