by Alice McDermott · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · tapa dura · ISBN 9780374130626
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A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award. From technical advice to reflections on public life, McDermott muses trenchantly and delightfully about the craft of fiction, quoting generously from the work of other great writers including Tolstoy, Shakespeare, Nabokov, Morrison, and Woolf. A rich and valuable sourcebook for readers and writers alike, this work is a deeply charming meditation on the unique gift that is literature.
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
