A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write.
Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart..
Throughout, she cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.
She takes pleasure in the signature elements of such outsatanding writers as Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, John Le Carré, James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield.
As she takes us on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters--Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov--Prose discovers why these writers endure.
A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and Write Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By Reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer instructs readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read--and write
