Playing the Inside Out/Le jeu des apparances (The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series) [Paperback]

David Adams Richards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 14, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0864925034 | ISBN-13: 978-0864925039 | Edition: No edition

In this provocative essay, David Adams Richards brings together his ideas about writing — how great works of literature are created, the writer’s essential position as an outsider, and the difficulties writers experience in the pursuit of personal truth. The quest for truth always comes with a price, says Richards, but it also results in freedom for writers and their characters, and sometimes results in great works of literature. Says Richards, “What I say to young writers is never fear that you too will be evaluated most harshly in your life for telling the truth. That the truth, not as others see it, but as you do, can only be told by you . . . The most important gift you can give the world is to write how you feel . . . There are no guarantees if you do this, but there is no hope if you do not.” Playing the Inside Out is the Second Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, sponsored by the Université de Moncton. It was presented on April 28, 2007 in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the 2007 Frye Festival.

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About the Author

David Adams Richards is one of Canada’s foremost novelists. He has won the Governor General’s Award, the Giller Prize, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean). His most recent novel, The Lost Highway, was released in November 2007.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions; No edition edition (February 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0864925034
• ISBN-13: 978-0864925039
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,458,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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