True stories and other essays / Francis Spufford.

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Hardback True stories and other essays / Francis Spufford.

Author: Spufford, Francis, 1964-

Publication year: 2017

Media class: Hardback

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 9780300230055 (hbk.) :

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An irresistible collection of favourite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability. 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?