A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson
investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with
certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our
relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious,
immersive and analytic, her memoir/critique shows how style elicits
particular kinds of moral judgments and subjective preferences,
which turn reading into a highly personal and political act.
Melding her experiences as reader and critic, Davidson opens new
vistas onto works by Jane Austen, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and
Thomas Pynchon; adds richer dimension to critiques of W. G. Sebald,
Alan Hollinghurst, Thomas Bernhard, and Karl Ove Knausgaard; and
allows for a sophisticated appreciation of popular fictions by
Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Lionel Shriver, George Pelecanos, and
Helen DeWitt. She privileges diction, syntax, point of view, and
structure over plot and character, identifying the intimate
mechanics that draw us in to literature's sensual frameworks and
move us to feel, identify, and relate.Davidson concludes with a
reading list of her favorite titles so others can share in her
literary adventures and get to know better the imprint of her own
reading style.
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