A Dangerous Profession

A Book About the Writing Life

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Books & Reading
Cover of the book A Dangerous Profession by Frederick Busch, St. Martin's Press
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Author: Frederick Busch ISBN: 9780312246082
Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: St. Martin's Press Language: English
Author: Frederick Busch
ISBN: 9780312246082
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication: April 1, 2011
Imprint: St. Martin's Press
Language: English

Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, he demonstrates that we as a culture ignore the fundamental truths about fiction only at our own peril. With keen ruminations that recall the critcs of yore- Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe-Busch, in this era of moral indirection, has revealed how the literature of our past is the key to our survival in the future.

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Frederick Busch has an enduring love affair with great books, and here he brilliantly communicates his passion to us all. Whether expounding on Melville or Dickens, or celebrating Hemingway or O'Hara, he explains what literature can ineffably reveal about our own lives. For Busch, there was no other recourse save the "dangerous profession;" it was to be his calling, and in these piercing essays, he demonstrates that we as a culture ignore the fundamental truths about fiction only at our own peril. With keen ruminations that recall the critcs of yore- Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and Irving Howe-Busch, in this era of moral indirection, has revealed how the literature of our past is the key to our survival in the future.

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