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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.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Member Lounge Lounge PE1408 .P774 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prose, Francine, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prose, Francine, 1947---Books and reading.
- Prose, Francine.
- English language--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Creative writing.
- Authors--Books and reading.
- Authors.
- Exposition (Rhetoric).
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Prose, Francine, 1947-.
- Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Literature
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 273, 21 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harper Perennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
- Summary:
- Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for 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.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Close reading
- Words
- Sentences
- Paragraphs
- Narration
- Character
- Dialogue
- Details
- Gesture
- Learning from Chekhov
- Reading for courage
- Books to be read immediately.
- Notes:
- "P.S. insights, interviews & more ..."--Cover
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-273).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780060777050
- 0060777052
- OCLC:
- 123129136
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/14648/Francine_Prose/index.aspx
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