Practice Of Writing - Hardcover

Lodge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436204088 ISBN 13: 9780436204081

Publisher: Secker, 1996

Synopsis

First published in 1996, this is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays on the relationship between creative writing, the teaching of the same and the task of dramatizing literary works for television and the stage.
Sends the reader back to writers' works (including Mr. Lodge's own) with a renewed appreciation of what makes them tick and why (New York Times)

These essays, so easy in manner, so well-built and informative, offer a fine blend of creative writing and criticism... The essays on writers who have meant most to him as a novelist, notably Graham Greene (on whom nobody has written better) and Joyce, are brilliant (Sunday Times)

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Review:

"Sends the reader back to writers' works (including Mr. Lodge's own) with a renewed appreciation of what makes them tick and why" (New York Times)

"These essays, so easy in manner, so well-built and informative, offer a fine blend of creative writing and criticism... The essays on writers who have meant most to him as a novelist, notably Graham Greene (on whom nobody has written better) and Joyce, are brilliant" (Sunday Times)

"Mr. Lodge's meditations on Joyce, Nabokov and Kingsley Amis, are indeed small gems, the sort of essays you want to underline and commit to memory" (New York Times)

"It is refreshing to be reminded that those who teach can also do" (Observer)

Book Description:

An entertaining volume of essays, perfect for aspiring writers and curious readers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Secker
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0436204088
• ISBN 13: 9780436204081
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356