NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS" "Good Prose" is an inspiring book about writing about the creation of Good prose and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. "The Boston Globe" " You are in such Good company congenial, ironic, a bit old-.
Praise for "Good Prose" Smart, lucid, and entertaining.
This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read Good books and longs to write one. "Good Prose" like Strunk and White s "The Elements of Style "is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike.
Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.
And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts.
They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language.
They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer.
They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as Nonfiction writers, for models and instruction.
Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience their mistakes as well as accomplishments to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. "Good Prose "explores three major Nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs.
It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction.
Before long, Kidder s "The Soul of a New Machine, " the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize.
From that article grew a lifelong association.
Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him.
The story begins in 1973, in the offices of "The Atlantic Monthly, " in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "KIRKUS REVIEWS" "Good Prose" is an inspiring book about writing about the creation of Good prose and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship
