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How to Write Like Tolstoy

- A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 352 sider

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year

‘This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader. It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements. You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.’ Hilary Mantel

‘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.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal352
  • Udgivelsesdato07-09-2017
  • ISBN139781786071651
  • Forlag Oneworld Publications
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Dybde2,4 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    12,9 cm
    19,8 cm

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