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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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by Francine Prose
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Availability:In StockContributor:Francine ProseSeries:P.S.Publish date:2007-04-10Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060777050ISBN-10:60777052UPC:9780060777050Book Category:Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, WritingBook Topic:Authorship, Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3V5X57CQ

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060777050ISBN-10:60777052UPC:9780060777050Book Category:Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, WritingBook Topic:Authorship, Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)Size:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC3V5X57CQ
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Francine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction including, the highly acclaimed 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, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose 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 is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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