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"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories-our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking-expose and distort our realities...

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Autor principal: Coates, Ta-Nehisi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : One World, [2024]
Edición:First edition.
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