| Description |
1 online resource (334 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Dedication; Contents; ONE: Close Reading; TWO: Words; THREE: Sentences; FOUR: Paragraphs; FIVE: Narration; SIX: Character; SEVEN: Dialogue; EIGHT: Details; NINE: Gesture; TEN: Learning from Chekhov; ELEVEN: Reading for Courage; Books to Be Read Immediately; Acknowledgments; Copyright |
| Summary |
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Prose, Francine, 1947- -- Books and reading
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| SUBJECT |
Prose, Francine, 1947- fast |
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Creative writing.
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Authors -- Books and reading
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Exposition (Rhetoric)
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Exposition (Rhetoric)
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Authors -- Books and reading
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Books and reading
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Creative writing
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English language -- Rhetoric
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Language.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781908526144 |
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1908526149 |
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