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A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life

Frederick Busch

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Frederick Busch, one of America's most distinguished novelists, has had an enduring love affair with great books and with the difficult, and sometimes personally dangerous, work that is required to produce them. For Busch, as he writes of his own career and those of his great elders, Dickens, Melville, Hemingway, and others, there was to be no other recourse save the dangerous profession. Writing out of an experience of risk that is suffused with affection, Busch brilliantly explores the hazards of the writing life and its effect on the achievement of benchmark writers.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Broadway Books

Release: November 02, 1999

ISBN: 0767903986

ISBN 13: 9780767903981

A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life

Frederick Busch

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Frederick Busch, one of America's most distinguished novelists, has had an enduring love affair with great books and with the difficult, and sometimes personally dangerous, work that is required to produce them. For Busch, as he writes of his own career and those of his great elders, Dickens, Melville, Hemingway, and others, there was to be no other recourse save the dangerous profession. Writing out of an experience of risk that is suffused with affection, Busch brilliantly explores the hazards of the writing life and its effect on the achievement of benchmark writers.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Broadway Books

Release: November 02, 1999

ISBN: 0767903986

ISBN 13: 9780767903981

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