A Dangerous Profession A Book About the Writing Life
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Full Title

A Dangerous Profession A Book About the Writing Life
Author(s)

Frederick Busch
Edition
ISBN

9780312246082, 9780312192556
Publisher

St. Martin\'s Press (Macmillan US Trade)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O’Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the “dangerous profession;” it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, he demonstrates that we as a culture ignore the fundamental truths about fiction only at our own peril. With keen ruminations that recall the critcs of yore- Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe-Busch, in this era of moral indirection, has revealed how the literature of our past is the key to our survival in the future.

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