Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Contributor(s): Prose, Francine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060777052 ISBN-13: 9780060777050 Publisher: Harper Perennial
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2007 Annotation: A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, "Reading Like a Writer" instructs readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart. |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Authorship - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - Nonfiction (incl. Memoirs) |
Dewey: 808.02 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" L (0.55 lbs) 320 pages |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: New York Times 05/27/2007 pg. 24 |
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Publisher Description: A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write 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. As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters--Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov--Prose discovers why these writers endure. She takes pleasure in the signature elements of such outsatanding writers as Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, John Le Carr , James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield. Throughout, 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Prose, Francine: - Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction, including Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, and a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in New York City. |
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