How to write like Tolstoy a journey into the minds of our greatest writers
"A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challeng...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Oneworld
2017
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| Sumario: | "A Spectator Best Book of the Year `There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.' So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets-writing a good sex scene? Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers-from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d'horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws." (Amazon) |
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| Notas: | "This paperback edition published 2017" |
| Descripción Física: | XX, 323 p. : il. ; 20 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice |
| ISBN: | 9781786071651 9781786070227 |
