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Letters to a Young Writer

McCann, Colum
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526600943
Publisert
2018-01-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
174 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
McCann, Colum

Biographical note

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.

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Letters to a Young Writer

McCann, Colum
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
McCann, Colum
Heftet / 2018 / Engelsk
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A warm, open-hearted paean to the joys of writing

Sunday Times

Excellent ... This slim volume cannot fail as a pick-me-up

Observer

Practical writing advice meets a heartfelt love song to creativity

Irish Times

Se alle

<b>An intensely literary writer ... His prose thrums with echoes of Beckett, Yeats and Joyce</b>

Sunday Times

A writer of power and subtlety

New York Times

<b>A very gifted, charming writer </b>

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

There is beauty to the language and precision, grace notes that return to mind time and again to transport you. McCann’s books feel universal. Now the 52-year-old Dublin-born New York-naturalised bestseller … is letting some of his secrets out … A guide to putting words on the page and a celebration of language, a call to look out, not in

Big Issue in Scotland

From the 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'A warm, open-hearted paean to the joys of writing' Sunday Times 'Excellent ... cannot fail as a pick-me-up' ObserverI hope there is something here for any young writer – or any older writer, for that matter – who happens to be looking for a teacher to come along, a teacher who, in the end, can really teach nothing at all but fire.From the critically acclaimed Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, comes a paean to the power of language, and a direct address to the artistic, professional and philosophical concerns that challenge and sometimes torment an author. Comprising fifty-two short prose pieces, Letters to a Young Writer ranges from practical matters of authorship, such as finding an agent, the pros and cons of creative writing degrees and handling bad reviews, through to the more joyous and celebratory, as McCann elucidates the pleasures to be found in truthful writing, for: ‘the best writing makes us glad that we are – however briefly – alive.’ Emphatic and empathetic, pragmatic and profound, this is an essential companion to any author’s journey – and a deeply personal work from one of our greatest literary voices.
Les mer
A warm, open-hearted paean to the joys of writing
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
Les mer
New York Times bestselling author Colum McCann won the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, Transatlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his short story ‘What Time is it Now, Where You Are?’ was recently shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize. Budding writers will be eager for this intimate insight into his working methods, his approach to the publishing industry and his inspirational words
Les mer

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New York Times bestselling author Colum McCann won the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, Transatlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his short story ‘What Time is it Now, Where You Are?’ was recently shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize. Budding writers will be eager for this intimate insight into his working methods, his approach to the publishing industry and his inspirational words
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526600943
Publisert
2018-01-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
174 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter
McCann, Colum

Biographical note

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.

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