TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prose,Francine
TI  - Reading like a writers: a guide for people who love books and those who want to write them 
SN  - 9781908526076
AV  - PE 1408 P966r 2012
U1  - 808/.02 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Union Books
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Creative writing
KW  - Authors
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Inglés
KW  - Retórica
KW  - Escritura creativa
KW  - Autores
KW  - Libros y lectura
N1  - Close reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage
N2  - 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 tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour 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 Carre for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Bronte's structural nuance and Charles Dickens's deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading
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