Title:
Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
ISBN:
9781555977597
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
174 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Ursula K. LeGuin.
"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive, Benjamin Percy turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
Contents:
Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
OCLC Number:
ocn931005540
Availability:
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