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Reading Like a Writer

20079780060777050-2025Harper Perennial 2007. Hardcover. New/New. Author: Francine ProsePublisher: Harper PerennialBinding: HardcoverISBN: 9780060777050Release Date: 2007Number Of Pages: 320Details: A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read―and writeLong 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.As 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 outstanding writers as Philip Roth Isaac Babel John Le Carré James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield. Throughout she champions the art of close reading cautioning 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.In this indispensable guide for writers and book lovers you’ll discover:A Writer’s Toolkit: Unpack the signature tools and tricks of literary greats from mastering narration and dialogue to crafting unforgettable characters.Learn from the Masters: Go beyond standard creative writing workshops and learn directly from the sentences of Dostoyevsky Flaubert Woolf and Chekhov.Word-by-Word Analysis: See how every word choice every sentence and every paragraph is a deliberate decision that brings a piece of literature to life.Read with a Fresh Eye: Whether you’re an aspiring novelist or a passionate reader find a new more profound way to appreciate the books you love. Harper Perennial hardcover

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Reading Like a Writer

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The Vixen

20219780063012141-2025Harper 2021. Hardcover. New/New. Author: Francine ProsePublisher: HarperBinding: HardcoverISBN: 9780063012141Release Date: 2021Number Of Pages: 336Details: Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR The Washington Post and Financial Timesâ€œNo one states problems more correctly more astutely more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.â€â€”Amy Bloom New York Times Book Review"Depending on the light itâ€™s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. But no matter how you turn it The Vixen offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America then and now."â€”Washington PostCritically acclaimed bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenbergâ€”an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive dangerous new world.Â Itâ€™s 1953 and Simon Putnam a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches exclusive literary parties and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits a far cry from his loving middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island.But Simonâ€™s first assignmentâ€”editing The Vixen the Patriot and the Fanatic a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg a potboiler intended to shore up the firmâ€™s failing financesâ€”makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenbergâ€™s. His parents mourn Ethelâ€™s death.Simonâ€™s dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixenâ€™s author the startlingly beautiful reckless seductive Anya Partridge ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen as the confluence of sex money politics and power spirals out of Simonâ€™s control he must face what heâ€™s lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parentsâ€™ Coney Island apartment for the witty whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem that everyone is keeping secrets that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plotâ€”and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future.Â At once domestic and political contemporary and historic funny and heartbreaking enlivened by surprising plot turns and passages from Anyaâ€™s hilariously bad novel The Vixen illuminates a period of history with eerily stri Harper hardcover