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The Practice of Writing |
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| Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 352 pages | ISBN 9780140261066 | 25 Sep 1997 | Penguin |
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When it comes to the craft of writing, bestselling novelist David Lodge finds much to celebrate, analyze, and confess. In this absorbing collection of seventeen essays he ponders the work of writers he particularly admires, current and past trends in literary style, and the mechanics of the craft itself. Revealing, enlightening pieces on Graham Greene, James Joyce, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Burgess are interspersed with personal reflections on Lodge?s own artistic and technical struggles. His insights into the contemporary world of publishing, and mass culture in general, are both trenchant and refreshing.
As entertaining as it is edifying, this collection of fine writing about writing will prove valuable to students of the art as well as to Lodge's many, loyal readers who wish to know more about his own work.
"Novelist, critic, professor, playwright, screenwriter--David Lodge has done it all. And in this volume he displays it all." --The Boston Globe
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