To save and to destroy

writing as an other

To save and to destroy

writing as an other
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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"Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen's To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature and in US society. Across six essays, first delivered as the Norton Lectures, Nguyen offers insightful readings of authors who shaped his craft, culminating in a poignant and vigorous call for a solidarity of the devastated"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
Series:Charles Eliot Norton lectures.
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