Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them

The Resource Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
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Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
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a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
Statement of responsibility
Francine Prose
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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
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

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