Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books & for Those Who Want to Write Them
[United States] : Harper Collins Publishers : Made available through hoopla, 2007.
Format: Eaudiobook
Edition: Unabridged.
Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 02 min.)) : digital.
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. 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-to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John Le Carr ̌for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue, and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. And, most importantly, she cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted.
Subjects:
Prose, Francine, 1947- -- Books and reading.
Creative writing.
Authors -- Books and reading.
English language -- Rhetoric.
Prose, Francine, 1947- -- Books and reading.
Creative writing.
Authors -- Books and reading.
English language -- Rhetoric.
ISBN:
9780061287374 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
Electronic resource.
Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Nanette Savard.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Digital content provided by hoopla.
Read by Nanette Savard.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.