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Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights into humanity and life. Wisdom and truth of all kinds are found in modern stories, of all kinds. It is an amazing resource-available to everybody. Storytelling goes where the artists go, examining most all of the major themes and issues and concerns that people have always faced. From "Aliens" to "Cabaret" to "Lolita" to "Minority Report," the book finds the hidden gems of wisdom that will last, and often outlast the surrounding story itself.…mehr

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Storytelling is a book of ideas. It is a large collection of short essays that identify and analyze timeless ideas and universal insights; insights into humanity and life. Wisdom and truth of all kinds are found in modern stories, of all kinds. It is an amazing resource-available to everybody. Storytelling goes where the artists go, examining most all of the major themes and issues and concerns that people have always faced. From "Aliens" to "Cabaret" to "Lolita" to "Minority Report," the book finds the hidden gems of wisdom that will last, and often outlast the surrounding story itself. Dramatic, illuminating, and peppered with humor, this book of essays exposes the profound, intriguing, and observant qualities of a modern story that often go unnoticed. To art, to art! To the great storyteller's art.
Autorenporträt
Roemer McPhee was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. He was trained in History at Princeton University, and in Finance at the Wharton Graduate School of Business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two previous books, The Boomer's Guide to Story, and Killing the Market: Legendary Investor Robert W. Wilson. He lives in New York City.