Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) By Francine Prose ISBN: 9780060777050 ASIN: B001W6RRFW Published: 2007 Number of Pages: 273 Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Harper Perennial Description: 在线阅读本书 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.

International Standard Book Number: 0060777044: 0060777052: 0060777052 (pbk): 9780060777043: 9780060777050: 9780060777050 (pbk)

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: PE1408
   - Item number: .P774 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 808/.02

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Prose, Francine,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1947-

Title Statement
   - Title: Reading like a writer :
   - Remainder of title: a guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Francine Prose.

Edition Statement: 1st ed.: 1st Harper Perennial ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Harper Perennial,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: HarperCollins Publishers,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2007, c2006.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2007.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2006.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 273 p. ;
   - Extent: 273, 28 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.

General Note: Originally published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note: Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately.

Summary, etc.: Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carr∩┐╜e for 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.--From publisher description.: Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carre╠ü for 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.--From publisher description.

Subject Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Prose, Francine,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1947-
   - General subdivision: Books and reading.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Authors
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Creative writing.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: English language
   - General subdivision: Books and reading.
   - General subdivision: Rhetoric.