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Dictionary stories, short fictions and other findings, Jez Burrows

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Dictionary stories, short fictions and other findings, Jez Burrows

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dictionary stories

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

995273497

Responsibility statement

Jez Burrows

Sub title

short fictions and other findings

Summary

One day while looking up a word in the New Oxford American Dictionary, Burrows was stopped in his tracks by an example sentence that seemed like a tiny piece of fiction which had wandered out of another book and settled down in the dictionary. Now he has created a collection of very short stories-- some barely one page long-- composed entirely of example sentences from various dictionaries. Genre-bending and wildly inventive, they create a giddy celebration of the originality, flexibility, and beauty of narrative

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