She looks to John Le Carré for how to advance plot through dialogue, to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail, and to James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield for clever examples of how to employ gesture to create character. She takes pleasure in the magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel she is moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. She reads the very best writers and discovers why their work has endured. Prose invites you on a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. Before there were workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says author and teacher Prose.
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