The Swerve
How the World Became Modern
By Stephen J. Greenblatt
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393064476, 356pp.)
Publication Date: September 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Modern - General, Renaissance
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Description
A riveting tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.
Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve, a dramatic account of the Renaissance-era rediscovery of the Latin poet Lucretius, won for nonfiction. Salvage the Bones, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, by Jesmyn Ward, won for fiction. More at NPR.org
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