How Fiction Works
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: July 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780374173401
Subjects: General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language
Description: An elegant little book by famed critic and New Yorker writer, James Woods, exploring the art of writing fiction, and writing well. Written for any lover of the novel - writers, teachers, readers - it delves into the mechanics, art and mystery that is good writing, the history of the craft and its evolution, with examples culled from Woods' personal library of favourites & a few duds.