Suppose a Sentence Joshua Ferris Isabell Lorey develops a democracy

Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense

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Suppose a Sentence Joshua Ferris Isabell Lorey develops a democracySuppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores