Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose • Hardcover • Harper (August 22, 2006) • 288 Pages Condition: Excellent —————————————— A distinguished novelist and critic inspires readers and writers with this inside look at how the professionals read―and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries. 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. ———————————————————————————————— REVIEWS “Prose’s little guide will motivate ‘people who love books’…Like the great works of fiction, it’s a wise and voluble companion.” — New York Times Book Review “The passages are…subtle and brilliant in their capture of human complexity…Prose is…a skilled…analyst of what makes them so.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Reading Like A Writer is different from the rest of the pack…[Prose’s] wise book serves as an ispirational reminder.” — Washington Times “Celebrates the pleasures of close reading and explores the power of well-wrought language…refreshing” — Time Out New York