Review
"...an amiable and lively account...Allusive, anecdotal...also admirably unsententious." -- The New York Times
"...pieces of verbal lacery stitched together into a balanced, lovely, delicately patterned whole." -- Kirkus Reviews
"It's like listening to a preternaturally articulate, well-read, inventive person think aloud...by turns a diary, a reading journal..." -- Phyllis Rose, author of
"...pieces of verbal lacery stitched together into a balanced, lovely, delicately patterned whole." -- Kirkus Reviews
"It's like listening to a preternaturally articulate, well-read, inventive person think aloud...by turns a diary, a reading journal..." -- Phyllis Rose, author of
Product Description
"...by turns a diary, a reading journal, and a meditation on the creative process."
Collecting Thomas Farber's nonfiction on writing and the writing life (including all of "Compared to What?"), A Lover's Quarrel contains this gifted author's meditation on his vocation. Anatomist, ironist, and moralist, Farber achieves effects of luminous integrity with deceptively simple means. A gift to writers who seek to understand what informs or haunts their metier, A Lover's Quarrel is also for any readers whose lives have been shaped-or saved-by story.
