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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who...
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780060777043
- Book Title
- Reading like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Authorship, General, Rhetoric, Books & Reading, Essays, Composition & Creative Writing
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- 5.5 in
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- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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 writersDostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhovand 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 Carr 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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HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060777044
ISBN-13
9780060777043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Reading like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Authorship, General, Rhetoric, Books & Reading, Essays, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Additional Product Features
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378
Lc Classification Number
Pe1408.P774 2006
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Readable and illuminating.few.advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal -- both in and out of the classroom., Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language…refreshing, The passages are…subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity…Prose is…a skilled…analyst of what makes them so., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'…Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal - both in and out of the classroom., An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing., Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack...[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., "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 "Witty...Insightful." -- Washington Post Book World "a jewel of a companion...engrossing...and...daringly insightful." -- Los Angeles Times "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 "Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack...[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder." -- Washington Times "Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal -- both in and out of the classroom." -- Kansas City Star "Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language...refreshing" -- Time Out New York "An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing." -- National Public Radio "Makes a case for the rewards of reading." -- Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel "Prose knows when to be funny, how to wield examples, and when to stop." -- More magazine "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's guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer's bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), Prose's guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer's bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'.Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Prose's little guide will motivate 'people who love books'...Like the great works of fiction, it's a wise and voluble companion., Readable and illuminating...few...advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, Readable and illuminating…few…advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose's latest book, Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack…[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack.[Prose's] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder., Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language...refreshing, The passages are...subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity...Prose is...a skilled...analyst of what makes them so.
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-058457
Dewey Decimal
808/.02
Dewey Edition
22
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