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Author:

Cohen, Richard, 1952-

Title:

How to write like Tolstoy : a journey into the minds of our greatest writers / Richard Cohen.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

323 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Fiction--Authorship.
Fiction--Technique.
Authorship.

Contents:

Grab, invite, beguile: beginnings -- Circular ruins: creating character -- Stolen words: three forms of plagiarism -- The trick of it: points of view -- Says you: the art and craft of dialogue -- Secret trapdoors: the power of irony -- Grabbing fiction by the tale -- Waves in the mind: rhythm in prose-writing -- "Just like Zorro": writing about sex -- Vision and re-vision (part 1) -- Vision and re-vision (part 2) -- The sense of an ending.

Summary:

Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced--and how they surmounted them.

ISBN:

0812998308 (acid-free paper)
9780812998306 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2015018626

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)