The Resource Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose
Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose
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- Summary
- Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carrڳe for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Extent
- 273, 21 pages
- Note
- "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover
- Contents
-
- Close reading
- Words
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- Narration
- Character
- Dialogue
- Details
- Gesture
- Learning from Chekhov
- Reading for courage
- Books to be read immediately
- Isbn
- 9780060777050
- Label
- Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
- Title
- Reading like a writer
- Title remainder
- a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
- Statement of responsibility
- Francine Prose
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carrڳe for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- HHO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Prose, Francine
- Dewey number
- 808/.02
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PE1408
- LC item number
- .P774 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Prose, Francine
- English language
- Authors
- Prose, Francine
- Authors
- Books and reading
- Creative writing
- English language
- Label
- Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose
- Note
- "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273)
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately
- Control code
- ocn123129136
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Extent
- 273, 21 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060777050
- Lccn
- 2005058457
- Media category
- unmediated
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- Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose
- Note
- "P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately
- Control code
- ocn123129136
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Extent
- 273, 21 pages
- Isbn
- 9780060777050
- Lccn
- 2005058457
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