Bibliograph

True stories, and other essays, Francis Spufford

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True stories, and other essays, Francis Spufford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

True stories

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

982652298

Responsibility statement

Francis Spufford

Sub title

and other essays

Summary

"Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present. He makes use of a variety of encounters with particular places, writers, or books to address deeper questions relating to the complicated relationship between story-telling and truth-telling. How must a nonfiction writer imagine facts, vivifying them to bring them to life? How must a novelist create a dependable world of story, within which facts are, in fact, imaginary? And how does a religious faith felt strongly to be true, but not provably so, draw on both kinds of writerly imagination? Ranging freely across topics as diverse as the medieval legends of Cockaigne, the Christian apologetics of C. S. Lewis, and the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Spufford provides both fresh observations and thought-provoking insights. No less does he inspire an irresistible urge to turn the page and read on"--, Provided by publisher

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