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WW Norton & Company, 1988. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, tight, square./very good+ : touch of shelf wear, NOT clipped ($14.95). 8vo 176pp. from front flap: "Thomas Farber's special gift as a writer is his ability to convey with deceptive simplicity and economy whole ranges of emotional experience. Here, in this luminous mosaic of linked nonfiction stories and meditations, he presents us with a startlingly original, interior view of the writer's life: the intricacies of its methods, of the impulse to story, of the writer's place in society--all that informs and haunts this odd vocation." #00964.
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- Title Compared to What?: On Writing and the Writer's Life
- Author Thomas Farber
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Date 1988
- ISBN 9780393026115 / 0393026116
- Weight 2.92 lbs (1.32 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Authorship, Authors, American - 20th century - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 88010017
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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New York, NY: W W Norton, 1988. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. First Edition, First Printing. (1944 -). Lyrical, and ironic, reflections of a successful author in mid-life. With himself as the protagonist, award winning authorThomas Farber (1944-), whose collections of short stories include Who Wrote the Book of Love? (1977) and Hazards to the Human Heart (1980), and the novel Curves of Pursuit. That books have their own fate, at the age of 41, Farber finds he had been living "as though he had all the time in the world". Perhaps none of us are rich in time?
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