Dictionary stories: short fictions and other findings
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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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Burrows, J. (2018). Dictionary stories: short fictions and other findings. First edition. Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Burrows, Jez. 2018. Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings. Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Burrows, Jez, Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings. Harper Perennial, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Burrows, Jez. Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings. First edition. Harper Perennial, 2018.
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