The Sound on the Page: Great Writers Talk about Style and Voice in Writing - Softcover

Yagoda, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060938226 ISBN 13: 9780060938222

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2005

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Book by Yagoda Ben

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Críticas:

"A stylish exploration of developing a distinctive voice and writing style."--Chicago Tribune

"This entertaining and instructive book should be part of any writing collection."--Library Journal

"Ben Yagoda [is] the best kind of close reader, attentive to writerly choices that most of us take for granted."--Wall Street Journal

"A shrewd, welcome meditation on literary style... that rarest of tomes: a splendidly written book about writing."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"This is an ingenious and memorable exploration of writing's soul..."--Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo

"[Ben Yagoda] is witty and offhandedly erudite and unafraid to read between the lines..."--Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and Secret Parts of Fortune

"...offers not only the author's amazingly informative narrative, but points us toward...the trial and error inherent in creativity."--Ann Beattie

"...the right mix of seriousness and wit, anecdote and insight."--Billy Collins

Reseña del editor:

Draws on interviews with forty leading contemporary authors to discuss the importance of individual style on literature, citing the distinguishing practices of today's top writers while making recommendations to serious readers and aspiring writers. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060938226
• ISBN 13: 9780060938222
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304