Description: Further DetailsTitle: On Becoming a NovelistCondition: NewISBN-10: 0393320030EAN: 9780393320039ISBN: 9780393320039Publisher: WW Norton & CoFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/17/1999Description: On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot. "For a certain kind of person," Gardner writes, "nothing is more joyful or satisfying than the life of a novelist." But no other vocation, he is quick to add, is so fraught with professional and spiritual difficulties. Whether discussing the supposed value of writer's workshops, explaining the role of the novelist's agent and editor, or railing against the seductive fruits of literary elitism, On Becoming a Novelist is an indispensable, life-affirming handbook for anyone authentically called to the profession. "A miraculously detailed account of the creative process."—Anne Tyler, Baltimore SunLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 211mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 143gAuthor: John GardnerGenre: Language & ReferenceRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: On Becoming a Novelist
Title: On Becoming a Novelist
ISBN-10: 0393320030
EAN: 9780393320039
ISBN: 9780393320039
Release Date: 10/17/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 172 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: On Becoming a Novelist
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Composition & Creative Writing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 5.2 Oz
Author: John W. Gardner
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
