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020			_a9780060777050 (pbk)
020			_a0060777052 (pbk)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn123129136
035			_a(NNC)6953667
050	1	4	_aPE1408 _b.P774 2007b
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100	1		_aProse, Francine, _d1947- _916417
245	1	0	_aReading like a writer : _ba guide for people who love books and for those who want to write them / _cFrancine Prose.
250			_a1st Harper Perennial ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarper Perennial, _c2007, c2006.
300			_a273, 21 p. ; _c22 cm.
505	0		_aClose reading -- Words -- Sentences -- Paragraphs -- Narration -- Character -- Dialogue -- Details -- Gesture -- Learning from Chekhov -- Reading for courage -- Books to be read immediately.
520			_aBefore there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aProse, Francine, _d1947- _xBooks and reading. _916418
650		0	_aEnglish language _xRhetoric. _916419
650		0	_aCreative writing. _916420
650		0	_aAuthors _xBooks and reading. _916421
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