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Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them

Author: Francine Prose
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Named Person: Francine Prose
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Francine Prose
ISBN: 0060777044 9780060777043
OCLC Number: 62762325
Description: 273 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately.
Responsibility: Francine Prose.
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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 Carre 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.

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