Letters to a Young Writer: Some practical and philosophical advice
Author(s): Colum Mccann
From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comesa lesson in how to be a writer--and so much more than that. Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear. A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them. These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.
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From the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic comes a passionate and practical book of advice, as essential for budding writers as Stephen King's On Writing
An intensely literary writer ... His prose thrums with echoes of Beckett, Yeats and Joyce Sunday Times A writer of power and subtlety New York Times A very gifted, charming writer Guardian McCann's writing is elegant and ironic The Times A supremely talented writer Sunday Times Practical writing advice meets heartfelt love song to creativity Irish Times 'Books to Look Out for in 2017
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His most recent short story collection, Thirteen Ways of Looking, includes the story 'What Time is it Now, Where You Are?' which was shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He lives in New York. colummccann.com
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- : 0.33
- : March 0000
- : 21.60 cmmm X 13.50 cmmm
- : United Kingdom
- : May 2017
- : June 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Colum Mccann
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : English
- : 808.02
- : 128