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Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
- Title
- Thrill me : essays on fiction / Benjamin Percy.
- Author
- Percy, Benjamin
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- 174 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page [4] of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- 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.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781555977597
- 1555977596
- OCLC
- 931005540
- SCSB-11566199
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library