Good Talk The Story and Skill of Conversation

Name: Good Talk The Story and Skill of Conversation
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ISBN: 9780446540018

ISBN-10: 0446540013

ISBN-13: 9780446540018

Edition: 2011

Authors: Daniel Menaker

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A Good Talk is an analysis of and guide to that most exclusively human of all activities-- conversation. Drawing on over forty years of experience in American letters, Menaker pinpoints the factors that drive and enliven every good conversation: the vagaries (and joys) of subtext; the deeper structure and meaning of conversational flow; the subliminal signals that guide our disclosures and confessions; and the countless other hurdles we must clear along the way. Moving beyond self-help musings and "how to" advice, he has created a stylish, funny, and surprising book: a celebration of "the most exclusively human of all activities." In a time when conversation remains deeply important-- for…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 1/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Daniel Menaker was born in 1941 in New York City. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Menaker has been an editor at Random House and has edited fiction and nonfiction at the New Yorker magazine for more than 20 years. His books include "Friends and Relations," a collection of short stories, and "The Treatment," a novel.