Alice LaPlante is a novelist, editor, teacher, and the author of the best-selling writing guides The Making of a Story and Write Yourself Out of a Corner, as well as the New York Times best-selling novel Turn of Mind. She lives in Mallorca, Spain.
Comprehensive in its coverage of inspiration, craft, aesthetics,
veracity, and purpose, this one-stop guide to writing is casual in
tone and rigorous in content, elucidating the nature of diction and
nonfiction and clarifying the qualities unique to each and common
to both. Each chapter contains an explication of such subjects as
point of view, characters, and narrative structure; writing
exercises; and an illustrative story by the likes of Tim O'Brien,
ZZ Packer, Lorrie Moore, John Cheever, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Expansive, clear, and sophisticated, LaPlante's richly resourced
guide is destined to become a standard.-- "Booklist"
This big, comprehensive book is almost a complete writing course.--
"Book Passage"
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