Thrill Me
Essays on Fiction
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 174 pages ; 21 cm
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
Contents:
Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
Subjects:
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fiction -- Technique.
Creative writing.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Fiction -- Technique.
Creative writing.
Fiction -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9781555977597
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LITERATURE Writing Per | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive, the author turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.