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How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers, Paperback / softback Book

How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers Paperback / softback

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year‘This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader.

It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements.

You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.’ Hilary Mantel‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets—writing a good sex scene?Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers—from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way.

In a glittering tour d’horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.

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