Reading like a writer : a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them
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New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
ISBN
9780060777050, 0060777052, 9780060777043
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult
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Published
New York : Harper Perennial, 2007.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
273 pages, 28 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780060777050, 0060777052, 9780060777043
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Description
Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for 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.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Prose, F. (2007). Reading like a writer: a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them (First Harper Perennial edition.). Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Prose, Francine, 1947-. 2007. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them. Harper Perennial.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Prose, Francine, 1947-. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Harper Perennial, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Prose, Francine. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them First Harper Perennial edition., Harper Perennial, 2007.
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