Reading Like a Writer

Quarto Publishing PLC

Reading Like a WriterA Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them\nAuthor(s): Francine Prose\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Union Books\nISBN-13: 9781908526076, 978-1908526076\nSynopsis\nIn 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\nto take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carr\nfor a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O\nConnor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Bront\ns structural nuance and Charles Dickens\ns deceptively simple narrative.