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The lost suitcase : reflections on the literary life

In an insightful and original meditation on the writer's craft that is by turns descriptive and prescriptive, Delbanco explores how literary virtuosity is achieved, how the writing of fiction can be taught, and the way literature functions for writer and reader equally. The book includes a novella called "The Lost Suitcase, " revolving around a famous anecdote about Hemingways early work and how it came to be lost
Print Book, English, ©2000
Columbia University Press, New York, ©2000
Literary collections
viii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
9780231115421, 9780231115438, 0231115423, 0231115431
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Travel, Art, and Death
Judgment
Rumford: His Book
Telephone
The Lost Suitcase: A Novella
Letter to a Young Fiction Writer
A Prayer for the Daughters
Less and More
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