Reading Like a Writer | A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Francine Prose

ISBN 10: 1908526076 / ISBN 13: 9781908526076

Published by Quarto Publishing PLC, 2012

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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 | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2012 | Quarto Publishing PLC | EAN 9781908526076 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading Like a Writer | A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908526076
• ISBN 13: 9781908526076
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 154H x 28D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Francine Prose is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award, and of the non-fiction writing guide, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, published by Aurum. A distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at several major universities. She lives in New York City.