Beyond the First Draft: The Art of Fiction

by John Casey

Book Overview

National Book Award winner John Casey is a masterful novelist who is also an inspiring and beloved teacher. In Beyond the First Draft he offers essential and original insights into the art of writing--and rewriting--fiction.

Through anecdotes about other writers' methods and habits (as well as his own) and close readings of literature from Aristotle to Zola, the essays in this collection offer "suggestions about things to do, things to think about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393241084
• ISBN13: 9780393241082
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.9"