Thrill me : essays on fiction /

Thrill me : essays on fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Percy, Benjamin, author.
Uniform title:	Essays. Selections
Imprint:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	174 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction -- Authorship. Fiction -- Technique. Creative writing. Fiction -- History and criticism. Creative writing. Fiction. Fiction -- Authorship. Fiction -- Technique. Essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10902714

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ISBN:	9781555977597 1555977596
Notes:	"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.

Table of 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.