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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative TC_Bestseller Lessa is an outcast survivor—herIn this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. Theres nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it. So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brookss reckoning with todays flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came