How to Write Like Tolstoy A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

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.

ISBN:	9781786071651
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Imprint:	Oneworld
Published date:	07 Sep 2017
DEWEY:	808.3
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 323
Weight:	306g
Height:	196mm
Width:	134mm
Spine width:	26mm

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