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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

byGeorge Saunders

In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders presents a cultural history centered on in Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of language arts & disciplines and literary criticism. Rather than isolating its subject, the book shows how private experience and public systems continually influenced one another. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Random House

Publication date

January 12th 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

417

ISBN

9781984856029