{"product_id":"reading-like-a-writer-a-guide-for-people-who-love-books-and-for-those-who-want-to-write-them-isbn-9780060777043","title":"Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them","description":"\u003cp\u003eA distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read—and write\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tAs 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. She takes pleasure in the signature elements of such outsatanding writers as Philip Roth, Isaac Babel, John Le Carré, James Joyce, and Katherine Mansfield. Throughout, she cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which literature is crafted. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eLong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eReading Like a Writer\u003c\/em\u003e, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e. She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with passion, humor, and wisdom, \u003cem\u003eReading Like a Writer\u003c\/em\u003e will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Prose’s guide to reading and writing belongs on every writer’s bookshelf alongside E.M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today on A Changed Main\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Racy, intensely imagined and highly readable . . . Prose brings to Caravaggio a fresh and unflinching eye.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review on Caravaggio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Prose’s little guide will motivate ‘people who love books’…Like the great works of fiction, it’s a wise and voluble companion.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language…refreshing” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“a jewel of a companion…engrossing...and...daringly insightful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Readable and illuminating…few…advice volumes offer as much insight into writing as you will find in Francine Prose’s latest book” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Prose knows when to be funny, how to wield examples, and when to stop.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Witty...Insightful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack…[Prose’s] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The passages are…subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity…Prose is…a skilled…analyst of what makes them so.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sensible, valuable and highly readable, Reading Like a Writer deserves perusal — both in and out of the classroom.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Makes a case for the rewards of reading.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An absolutely necessary addition to the personal library of anyone who is a writer or dreams of writing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Public Radio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889113821413,"sku":"NP9780060777043","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060777043.jpg?v=1730230545","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reading-like-a-writer-a-guide-for-people-who-love-books-and-for-those-who-want-to-write-them-isbn-9780060777043","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}