The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing - Hardcover

Yagoda, Ben

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066214173 ISBN 13: 9780066214177

Publisher: Harper Resource, 2004

Synopsis

Draws on interviews with forty leading contemporary authors to discuss the importance of individual style on literature, citing the distinguishing practices of today's top writers while making recommendations to serious readers and aspiring writers.

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Review:

"A shrewd, welcome meditation on literary style. that rarest of tomes: a splendidly written book about writing." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

"A stylish exploration of developing a distinctive voice and writing style."--Chicago Tribune

"This entertaining and instructive book should be part of any writing collection."--Library Journal

."..offers not only the author's amazingly informative narrative, but points us toward...the trial and error inherent in creativity."--Ann Beattie

."..the right mix of seriousness and wit, anecdote and insight."--Billy Collins

"This is an ingenious and memorable exploration of writing's soul..."--Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo

"Ben Yagoda [is] the best kind of close reader, attentive to writerly choices that most of us take for granted."--Wall Street Journal

"[Ben Yagoda] is witty and offhandedly erudite and unafraid to read between the lines..."--Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and Secret Parts of Fortune

"A shrewd, welcome meditation on literary style... that rarest of tomes: a splendidly written book about writing."--Philadelphia Inquirer

..".the right mix of seriousness and wit, anecdote and insight."--Billy Collins

About the Author:

Ben Yagoda is the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Will Rogers. He is coeditor, with Kevin Kerrane, of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The American Scholar, Esquire, and many other publications. Yagoda directs the journalism department at the University of Delaware, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Resource
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0066214173
• ISBN 13: 9780066214177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 267