Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know About Writing - Rilegato

O'Conner, Patricia T.

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ISBN 10: 0151003718 ISBN 13: 9780151003716

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Riassunto

A practical guide to good writing takes readers step by step through the process, offering valuable advice on how to cut through the purple prose, put your subject where the action is, and extricate weak words, among other topics. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"O'Conner uses her playful sense of humor to help us swallow with a laugh the rules that schoolmarms once forced down students' throats.-The New York Times Book Review
"O'Conner is one of those sneaky-good writers: You don't see the effort behind her smoothness."-Salon.com "Read this one from end to end....Imagine what the Congressional Record would be like if bureaucrats wrote that way."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Will delight the word lovers on your shopping list...Sassy." -Detroit News Free Press
"Remember Woe Is I? Well, Ms. O'Conner is back and she hasn't lost her touch. This book is worth the price just to read her chapter titles and headings."-Writers' Exchange
"Patricia T. O'Conner's Woe Is I and Words Fail Me are readable, sympathetic to the struggling writer and often just plain funny."-the Seattle Times

L'autore:

Patrcia T. O'Conner was an editor at the New York Times Book Review when she wrote Woe Is I. Her writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and Newsweek. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Stewart Kellerman.

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• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0151003718
• ISBN 13: 9780151003716
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 230