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

Prose, Francine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060777044 ISBN 13: 9780060777043

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2006

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Book by Prose Francine

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"The passages are.subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity.Prose is.a skilled.analyst of what makes them so." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"a jewel of a companion.engrossing...and...daringly insightful." -- Los Angeles Times

"Witty...Insightful." -- Washington Post Book World

"Makes a case for the rewards of reading." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel

"Readable and illuminating.few.advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book" -- Capital Times

"Prose knows when to be funny, how to wield examples, and when to stop."--More magazine

"Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'...Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion."--New York Times Book Review

"The passages are...subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity...Prose is...a skilled...analyst of what makes them so."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Readable and illuminating...few...advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book"--Capital Times

"Witty...Insightful."--Washington Post Book World

Reseña del editor:

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.

In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carre for a lesson in 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.

Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060777044
• ISBN 13: 9780060777043
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273