{"product_id":"how-to-write-like-tolstoy-9781786071651","title":"How To Write Like Tolstoy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpectator \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVeteran 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42360635490510,"sku":"9781786071651","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781786071651_a.png?v=1709535353","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.live\/products\/how-to-write-like-tolstoy-9781786071651","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}