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Author Prose, Francine, 1947-

Title Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them / Francine Prose.

Imprint New York : Harper Perennial, 2007, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.02 P945r 2007    ---  Available
Edition 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Description 273, 21 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.
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 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.--From publisher description.
Subject English language -- Rhetoric.
Creative writing.
Authors -- Books and reading.
Prose, Francine, 1947- -- Books and reading.
Prose, Francine, 1947- -- Books and reading.
English language -- Rhetoric.
Creative writing.
Authors -- Books and reading.
ISBN 0060777052 (pbk)
9780060777050 (pbk)
Standard No. YDXCP 2466903
NZ1 12083735
AU@ 000041629587

 
    
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