Before We Get Started
A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life
$29.97
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2005
Summary
For fans of Anne Lamott’s beloved BIRD by BIRD, Annie Dillard’s THE WRITING LIFE, Stephen King’s ON WRITING, and Carolyn See’s MAKING A LITERARY LIFE.
This marvelous guide begins where other books on writing and the writing life leave off. Delving deep into the creative process, Bret Lott reveals truths we scarcely realized we needed to know but without which we as writers will soon lose our way. In ten intimate essays based on his own experiences and on the seasoned wisdom of writers…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345478177 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0345478177 |
| Author: | Bret Lott |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 135mm x 13mm |
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“Learning to write … is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.” BRET LOTT from Before We Get Started
“Learning to write … is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.”
–BRET LOTT from Before We Get Started
About The Author
Bret Lott
Bret Lott is the author of the novels A Song I Knew by Heart, Jewel (an Oprah’s Book Club Selection in 1999), Reed’s Beach, A Stranger’s House, The Man Who Owned Vermont, and The Hunt Club; the story collections How to Get Home and A Dream of Old Leaves; and the memoir Fathers, Sons, and Brothers. He lives with his wife in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was recently named editor of The Southern Review.
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