Phillip Gerard (742 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfictionpresents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: .Terry Tempest Williams- Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. .Alan Cheuse- Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. .Phillip Lopate- Build your narrator-yourself-into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. .Robin Hemley- Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. .Carolyn Forche- Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. .Dinty W. Moore- Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. .Philip Gerard- Understand the narrative stance-why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction-whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history-a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more-selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Experience the power and the promise of working in today' most exciting literary form: Creative Nonfiction Writing Creative Nonfictionpresents more than thirty essays examining every key element of the craft, from researching ideas and structuring the story, to reportage and personal reflection. You'll learn from some of today's top creative nonfiction writers, including: .Terry Tempest Williams- Analyze your motivation for writing, its value, and its strength. .Alan Cheuse- Discover how interesting, compelling essays can be drawn from every corner of your life and the world in which you live. .Phillip Lopate- Build your narrator-yourself-into a fully fleshed-out character, giving your readers a clearer, more compelling idea of who is speaking and why they should listen. .Robin Hemley- Develop a narrative strategy for structuring your story and making it cohesive. .Carolyn Forche- Master the journalistic ethics of creative nonfiction. .Dinty W. Moore- Use satire, exaggeration, juxtaposition, and other forms of humor in creative nonfiction. .Philip Gerard- Understand the narrative stance-why and how an author should, or should not, enter into the story. Through insightful prompts and exercises, these contributors help make the challenge of writing creative nonfiction-whether biography, true-life adventure, memoir, or narrative history-a welcome, rewarding endeavor. You'll also find an exciting, creative nonfiction "reader" comprising the final third of the book, featuring pieces from Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, Beverly Lowry, Phillip Lopate, and more-selections so extraordinary, they will teach, delight, inspire, and entertain you for years to come.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Meet the characters of essayist Philip Gerard's world: a misguided sailor and his crew of rowdy teenage boys, an ancient nun, a nurse who believes the government has been secretly spreading the bubonic plague, a park ranger, jaded baseball players, a voice on a VHF radio far out to sea, a family of itinerant Mexicans camping dangerously in a dry riverbed, a famous alcoholic writer, and a few inexplicable ghosts. Gerard's true stories are shot through with the uncanny and the mysterious--they are not quiet interior contemplations but instead are full of public events, remarkable encounters, life-and-death moments that both reveal and deepen the mysteries of our lives.The Patron Saint of Dreams is a collection of fifteen narrative essays that address events in the world through the lens of personal experience, moments when seemingly small decisions have large consequences: enduring the terror of a direct hit by a hurricane, hiking through bear country and suffering a heart attack, hearing a disturbing secret from a old soldier who has kept it for sixty years, discovering an imposter who maintains his dual life long after death. Told by one of the South's most acclaimed and masterful nonfiction writers, these are the stories we live, and the lovely and terrible people who live them with us.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. In this thriller, contemporary Outer Banks politics, including issues about offshore drilling, interweave with the region's World War II history.

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