25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way

Have you ever needed a book without knowing it, until it's in your hands? 25 Great Sentences is that book. You'll savor it. You'll pick it up again and again. -- John Allman, winner of the Pushcart Prize and Helen Bull Prize for poetry, author of Loew's Triboro and Clio's Children Finally, someone who appreciates the engine of a fine sentence and isn't afraid to tinker with all the parts! -- Brenda Miller, author of An Earlier Life and coauthor of Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction Geraldine Woods breaks down twenty-five of the greatest sentences in the history of the written word and obsesses over them in a way that writers and nonwriters can appreciate. -- David Mandel, Emmy-winning executive producer of Veep Using hundreds of examples from writers as diverse as Bruce Springsteen and Virginia Woolf, Geraldine Woods articulates the precise ways in which a writer can send a sentence spinning. -- Mary Norris, author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen This handy, practical guide prompts would-be writers to think critically about how to create effective and meaningful sentences. -- Publishers Weekly [A]n upbeat, informative guide for writers and readers. -- Kirkus Reviews