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What is On Writers and Writing about?
"All my life," John Gardner wrote, weeks before his death in a motorcycle accident, "I've lived flat-out. As a motorcycle racer, chemist, writer ... I was never cautious." This goes for John Gardner the critic as well, and that is nowhere more evident than in the pieces collected in this book. On Writers and Writing brings together, for the first time, John Gardner's essays and reviews on his fellow writers and reaffirms his status as one of the most intelligent, generous, and insightful critics
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Gardner
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley; Counterpoint
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780201626728
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Literary Collections
- Rating
- 3.68 / 5 (67 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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