Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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- ISBN 9780060777043 / 0060777044
- Title Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Author Francine Prose
- Category Literary Studies: General
- Format Hardcover
- Year 2006
- Pages 273
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint HarperCollins
- Language English
- Dimensions 147mm x 25mm x 211mm
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.
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.
In “Reading Like a Writer,” Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov and discovers why their work has endured. She takes 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 Carre for a lesson in 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.
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.
In “Reading Like a Writer,” Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov and discovers why their work has endured. She takes 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 Carre for a lesson in 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.
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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“An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing.”—National Public Radio
Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction
Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction
Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction
Francine Prose is the author of sixteen books of fiction and the acclaimed nonfiction works “Anne Frank: The Book, T and the acclaimed nonfiction works ”Anne Frank: The Book, T and the acclaimed nonfiction works “Anne Frank: The Book, T and the acclaimed nonfiction works ”Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife“ and ”Reading Like a Writer“. She livhe Life, The Afterlife” and “Reading Like a Writer”. She livhe
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