One True Sentence
One True Sentence
Description
'All you have to do is write one true sentence', Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. 'Write the truest sentence that you know'. If that is the secret to Hemingway's enduring power, what sentences continue to live in readers' minds? And why do they resonant? The host and producer of the One True Podcast have gathered the best of their program (heard by thousands of listeners) and added entirely new material for this collection of conversations about Hemingway's truest words.
From the long, whole-story-in-a-sentence line, 'I have seen the one-legged streetwalker who works the Boulevard Madeleine between the Rue Cambon and Bernheim Jeunes' limping along the pavement through the crowd on a rainy night with a beefy red faced episcopal clergyman holding an umbrella over her.', to the short, pithy line that closes The Sun Also Rises, 'Isn't it pretty to think so?', this is a collection full of delights, surprises, and insight.
'All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened', wrote Hemingway. "'And after you're finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards, it all belongs to you'. For readers of American literature, One True Sentence is full of remembrances - of words you read and the feelings they gave you. For writers, this is an inspiring view of an element of craft - a single sentence - that can make a good story come alive and become a great story.
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