Suppose a Sentence

<b><b>A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of <i>Essayism</i>, a 2018 <i>New Yorker</i> book of the year</b>.</b> <p></p>In <i>Suppose a Sentenc</i>e, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to <i>Essayism</i>, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence--from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion--this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, <i>Suppose a Sentence</i> is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.