A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life [Audiobook] free ebook download.

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Author(s):	George Saunders

Date:	2021	Format:	M4B@128 kbps	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	B08BG9PPBB
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Author: George Saunders
Narrator: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renee Elise Goldsberry

From the New York Times best-selling, Booker Prize - winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today.

In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art - namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?"
He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions  why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it  and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

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