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Clark Blaise is a North American treasure one of a handful of the trulyimportant shortstory writers in the last 50 years. His Selected Essays bringtogether for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and courageousoeuvre belleslettres essays and occasional pieces which range overautobiography his FrenchCanadian heritage the craft of fiction Americanfiction Australian fiction and the work of such individual writers as JackKerouac V.S. Naipaul Salmon Rushdie Alice Munro Leon Rooke and BernardMalamud his friend and mentor. His essays on literary craft and technique areessential reading for aspiring writers and for readers eager for knowledge ofliteratures nutsandbolts. Always elegant profound thoughtprovoking andcontrarian Blaises essays grapple with the themes and preoccupations thathave animated his fiction and give us a more intimate understanding of thework of this most modern of North American writers. «
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