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The secret miracle : the novelist's handbook / edited by Daniel Alarcon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Holt paperbackPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.Description: 357 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780805087147 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
  • 0805087141
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3355 S446 2010
Contents:
Reading and influences -- Getting started -- Structure and plot -- Character and scene -- Writing -- Revision -- The end -- Appendix. Mario Bellatin's answer ; Aura Estrada's diagram of The loser.
Summary: The world's best contemporary novelists, from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa, engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write.
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Includes index.

Reading and influences -- Getting started -- Structure and plot -- Character and scene -- Writing -- Revision -- The end -- Appendix. Mario Bellatin's answer ; Aura Estrada's diagram of The loser.

The world's best contemporary novelists, from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa, engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write.

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