Description: On Becoming a Novelist / John Gardner ; foreword by Raymond Carver. New York : W.W. Norton & Co. ; c1983/1999. xxv, 150 pages : illustrations; 8.5 in. trade paperback. Condition is Brand New. Ships by US Media Mail. Combined or expedited shipping available; DM seller with inquiries. "On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a working novelist; warns what needs to be guarded against, both from within the writer and from without; and predicts what the writer can reasonably expect and what, in general, he or she cannot. 'For a certain kind of person,' Gardner writes, 'nothing is more joyful or satisfying than the life of a novelist.' But no other vocation, he is quick to add, is so fraught with professional and spiritual difficulties. Whether discussing the supposed value of writer's workshops, explaining the role of the novelist's agent and editor, or railing against the seductive fruits of literary elitism, On Becoming a Novelist is an indispensable, life-affirming handbook for anyone authentically called to the profession. "
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Book Title: On Becoming a Novelist
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Original Language: English
Item Length: 21 cm
Vintage: Yes
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Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1 cm
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Features: Illustrated
Topic: Writing, Authorship, Novelists, Writers
Item Width: 14 cm
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Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: Trade paperback edition
Publication Year: 1999
Type: Monograph
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Era: 1990s
LC Number: 82-48662
Author: John Gardner
Genre: Writing, Authorship, Career
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 6.5 oz.
Number of Pages: xxv, 150 pages
