Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2006
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First edition, hardcover, signed by Prose on the title page, the book has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a hint of age toning to the page edges. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has slight bumps to the spine ends and corners, and a few thin areas of soiling to the back. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.
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- Title
- Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Author
- Prose, Francine
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060777044
- ISBN 13
- 9780060777043
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Books About Books, Hobbies/Craft, Literature
A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read―and write
Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters―Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov―Prose discovers why these writers endure. She takes pleasure in the signature elements of such outsatanding writers as Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, John Le Carré, James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield. Throughout, she cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. 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.
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