The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms

by Kim Adrian

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig's List ad. Like their zoological namesake, these essays do not simply wear their borrowed "shells" but inhabit them so perfectly that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803296762
• ISBN13: 9780803296763
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"