Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who Loves Books and for Those who Want to Write Them [Audiobook] download free by Francine Prose
- Listen audiobook: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People who Loves Books and for Those who Want to Write Them
- Author: Francine Prose
- Release date: 2011/10/27
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780060777050
- Rating: 7.61 of 10
- Votes: 732
- Review by: Alistair Weiner
- Review rating: 7.8 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/25
- Duration: 3H24M7S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, MPC, MPEG4, WAV, AC3, FLAC (compression ZIP, CBR, TAR.BZ2, JAR, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M28S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 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.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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Writing & Editing Guides, Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.98 USD
- Dimensions: 214x260x19.81mm
- Weight: 226.8g
- Printed by: HarperPerennial
- Published in: New York, United States
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