Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (Record no. 50505)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780060777050
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 808.02 PRO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Prose, Francine
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Harper Perennial
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2007
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 273
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré 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 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
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature Studies and Criticism
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Koha item type Book
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