{"product_id":"how-to-write-like-tolstoy-a-journey-into-the-minds-of-our-greatest-writers-9781786071651","title":"How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Cohen, Richard\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCreative writing \u0026amp; creative writing guides\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 7 September 2017 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 134 x 26 | 306g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Spectator Best Book of the Year‘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‘There are three rules for writing a novel,’ Somerset Maugham once said. ‘Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.’So 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?Veteran 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Cohen, Richard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55750941802874,"sku":"9781786071651","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781786071651.jpg?v=1755108885","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-to-write-like-tolstoy-a-journey-into-the-minds-of-our-greatest-writers-9781786071651","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}