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Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction
Contributor(s): Kitchen, Judith (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0393326004     ISBN-13: 9780393326000
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2005
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Annotation: Seventy-five writers including Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, Jerry Tempest Williams, Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, and Jane Brox reflect on the power of short works to move, persuade, and change readers.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
Dewey: 814.540
LCCN: 2005008220
Physical Information: 1.04" H x 5.5" W x 8.28" L (0.71 lbs) 400 pages
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Ingram Advance 07/01/2005 pg. 73
Kliatt 11/01/2005 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 05/18/2015
 
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Publisher Description:
In the years since the perennially popular In Short and In Brief were published, readers have come to delight in the deft focus of the succinct piece we now call The Short. Extending this trend, Short Takes presents over seventy-five writers whose range and style demonstrate the myriad ways we humans have of telling our truths. Themes develop and speak to or collide with one another: musings about parents, childhood, sports, weather, war, solitude, nature, loss--and, of course, love. The stellar roster of contributors includes well-known writers--Verlyn Klinkenborg, Jo Ann Beard, David Sedaris, Dorothy Allison, Salman Rushdie, and Terry Tempest Williams--along with Michael Perry, Mark Spragg, Jane Brox, and others whose literary stars are clearly rising. Each short--whether a few paragraphs or reaching 2,000 words, and reflecting almost every way nonfiction can be written--invites us to experience the power of the small to move, persuade, and change us.

Contributor Bio(s): Kitchen, Judith: - Writer and educator Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the cofounder of the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
 
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