A Lover's Quarrel: On Writing and the Writing Life (Paperback)

~ Thomas Farber (Author)

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"...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 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Description

Collecting Thomas Farber's nonfiction on writing and the writing life, 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 and haunts their métier, A Lover's Quarrel is also for any readers whose lives have been shaped-or saved-by story.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• Publisher: Ellsberg Books (February 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978869923
• ISBN-13: 978-0978869922
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,827,225 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Different Book On Writing, August 9, 2007

By	The Cashmere Bookworm "Cashmere and books --w... (California, United States) - See all my reviews

This is a welcome return of a book was published in its original form as 1988.

This isn't the sort of book that goes over the nuts & bolts of plot, pacing, characters --an A-Z compendium of things we've heard before. Thomas Farber's meditations on writing places it not as an independent act, but a way of living, breathing, being, and extension of yourself. A collection of short essays, single line thoughts, and anecdotes, there is wisdom to be found, at times reaching deep down --an unseen hand grabbing your soul, gently prodding and revealing what you sense is already there. Not a book to be read quickly, Farber demands your attention and the time to digest precisely what he is saying.