Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
of Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)
Description
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. And, most important, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 297 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date April 10th 2007
- First Publication 08/22/06
- Language English
- ISBN 9780060777050
- Edition Not informed
- Category Arts & Culture
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