"Good sentences promise nothing less than lessons and practice in the organization of the world," writes legal scholar and literary theorist Stanley Fish in this jewel of a book, in which the author admires the anatomy and beauty of single sentences, parsing micro-masterpieces from Shakespeare to Elmore Leonard. Even the title of Chapter Two proves highly intriguing: "Why You Won't Find the Answer in Strunk and White."
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