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Thrill me : essays on fiction
- Title
- Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
- Author
- Percy, Benjamin.
- Publication
- Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-346 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 174 pages; 21 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Note
- "In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Urusula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
- Contents
- Thrill me -- Urgency -- Set pieces: staging the iconic scene -- There will be blood: writing violence -- Making the extraordinary ordinary -- Designing suspense -- Don't look back -- Modulation: the art of reversal -- Sounds like writing -- Move mountains: activating setting -- Feckless pondering -- Get a job -- Consider the orange: meaningful repetition -- Home improvement: revision as renovation -- Go the distance.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-346
- ISBN
- 1555977596
- 9781555977597
- LCCN
- 2016931536
- OCLC
- 931005540
- Author
- Percy, Benjamin.
- Title
- Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-346