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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

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
Creator
Subject
Genre
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-
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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
  • 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
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
"P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • 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
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them, Francine Prose
Publication
Copyright
Note
"P.S. insights, interviews & more..."--Cover
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • 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
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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