Suppose a Sentence Joshua Ferris Jeffrey Sissons’s account illuminates this

Jeffrey Sissons’s account illuminates this tumultuous chapter in Aotearoa’s history

extended takes

A powerful portrait of a gifted man -- Oliver-James Campbell ― New Scientist

Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense

and this on – hits all the right notes

Suppose a Sentence Joshua Ferris Jeffrey Sissons’s account illuminates thisSuppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, widely conceived. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose. In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores