Secret Miracle The Novelist's Handbook

Name: Secret Miracle The Novelist's Handbook
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ISBN: 9780805087147

ISBN-10: 0805087141

ISBN-13: 9780805087147

Edition: 2010 (Handbook (Instructor's))

Authors: Daniel Alarcon

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The world's best contemporary writersfrom Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tanengage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fictionDrawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels,The Secret Miraclebrings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write. Paul Auster, Roddy Doyle, Allegra Goodman, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Susan Minot, Rick Moody, Haruki Murakami, George Pelecanos, Gary Shteyngart, and others take us step by step through the alchemy of writing fiction, answering everything from nuts-and-bolts queries"Do you outline?"to perennial…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 4/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English



Introduction



The Writers



Reading and Influences



Getting Started



Structure and Plot



Character and Scene



Writing



Revision



The End


Appendix


Mario Bellatin's Answer


Aura Estrada's Diagram of The Loser


Index of Writers, Artists, Musicians, and Directors Mentioned


Acknowledgments


About the Editor


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