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

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
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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