Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Author:   Francine Prose
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing PLC
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9781908526076


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them


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In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carre for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Bronte's structural nuance and Charles Dickens's deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading.

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Author:   Francine Prose
Publisher:   Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Union Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9781908526076


ISBN 10:   1908526076
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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For everyone studying English literature this book should be required reading; it is a wonderful explanation of how writers build their books from the words upwards. -- Daisy Goodwin The Sunday Times 20120527 a clarion call for aspiring writers to do that most simple, time-consuming but enjoyable thing: their homework ...Prose's forthright, waspish and often very funny book is a plea to all writers for vigour and clarity, one which encourages them to tend to the details of technique, and the mastery of language, as closely as they tend to their own ambition. -- Louise Doughty The Observer 20120527


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Francine Prose is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award, and of the non-fiction writing guide, Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, published by Aurum. A distinguished critic and essayist, she has taught literature and writing for more than twenty years at several major universities. She lives in New York City.

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