EAN: 9780812987737

HOW TO WRITE LIKE TOLSTOY - RICHARD COHEN KARTO...

A thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world s most accomplished storytellers 
from Shakespeare to Stephen King NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SPECTATOR
Richard Cohen s book acted as a tonic to me. It didn t make me more Russian  but it fired up my
imagination. I have never annotated a book so fiercely. Hilary Mantel There are three rules for
writing a novel  Somerset Maugham is said to have said. Unfortunately  no one knows what they
are. How then to bring characters to life  find a voice  kill your darlings  or run that most
challenging of literary gauntlets  writing a sex scene? What made Nabokov choose the name
Lolita? Why did Fitzgerald use firstperson narration in The Great Gatsby ? How did Kerouac  who
raged against revision  finally come to revise On the Road ? Veteran editor and author Richard
Cohen takes us on an engrossing journey into the lives and minds of the world s greatest
writers  from Honoré de Balzac and George Eliot to Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith with a few
mischievous detours to visit Tolstoy along the way. In a scintillating tour d horizon  Cohen
lays bare the tricks  motivations  and techniques of the literary greats  revealing their
obsessions and flaws and how we can learn from them along the way.

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