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Burning down the house : essays on fiction

These essays explore the influences of culture and politics on the art of storytelling. By inviting the reader to "explore the imagination's grip on daily life and how one lives in the pressure of that grip", Baxter offers his own perspective on reading and writing contemporary fiction.
Print Book, English, 1997
Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1997
xiv, 245p.
9781555972707, 9781555972561, 1555972705, 155597256X
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