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New York Times Bestseller Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style Adam Haslett, Financial Times A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language. Slate Like a long periodic sentence, this book rumbles along, gathers steam, shifts gears, and packs a wallop. Roy Blount Jr. In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. "