Reading Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them

Reading Like A Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books And For Those Who Want To Write Them by Francine Prose


ISBN
9780060777050
Published
Released
04 / 06 / 2007
Binding
Paperback
Pages
272
Dimensions
214 x 260mm

Distinguished novelist and critic Francine Prose inspires readers and writers alike 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.

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 writers -- Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov -- and discovers why these writers endure. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breath-taking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterisation in George Eliot's 'Middlemarch'. She looks to John Le Carre 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 who offer 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, humour, 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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