Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Francine Prose

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
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Francine Prose
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9780060777050
Francine Prose takes your students on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters--Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Joyce, Woolf, Chekhov--and discovers why these writers endure. Throughout READING LIKE A WRITER, she cautions students to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. The 28-page P.S. contains an author biography and READING AND WRITING: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCINE PROSE--an extensive interview by Jessica Murphy--that first appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY online.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Francine ProsePublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 04/10/2007ISBN: 9780060777050Pages: 273Weight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00dReview Citations: New York Times 05/27/2007 pg. 24
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    Francine Prose takes your students on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters--Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Joyce, Woolf, Chekhov--and discovers why these writers endure. Throughout READING LIKE A WRITER, she cautions students to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.

    The 28-page P.S. contains an author biography and READING AND WRITING: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCINE PROSE--an extensive interview by Jessica Murphy--that first appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY online.

    Binding Type: Paperback
    Author: Francine Prose
    Publisher: Harper Perennial
    Published: 04/10/2007
    ISBN: 9780060777050
    Pages: 273
    Weight: 0.55lbs
    Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.00d

    Review Citations: New York Times 05/27/2007 pg. 24
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