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Coles How to Write Like Tolstoy Lib/E: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking--sometimes obsessive--effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar. Here are Gabriel García Márquez's thoughts on how to start a novel (In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book); Virginia Woolf offering her definition of style (It is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words); and Vladimir Nabokov on the nature of fiction (All great novels are great fairy tales). Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. The result is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing that enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and shows us how they surmounted them.
Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking--sometimes obsessive--effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar. Here are Gabriel García Márquez's thoughts on how to start a novel (In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book); Virginia Woolf offering her definition of style (It is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words); and Vladimir Nabokov on the nature of fiction (All great novels are great fairy tales). Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. The result is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing that enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and shows us how they surmounted them.
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