出版社: Random House Trade Paperbacks
副标题: The Art of Nonfiction
出版年: 2013-8-27
页数: 224
定价: USD 12.97
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400069750
内容简介 · · · · · ·
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifel...
Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing—about the creation of good prose—and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of The Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder came looking for an assignment. Richard Todd was the editor who encouraged him. From that article grew a lifelong association. Before long, Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine, the first book the two worked on together, had won the Pulitzer Prize. It was a heady moment, but for Kidder and Todd it was only the beginning of an education in the art of nonfiction.
Good Prose explores three major nonfiction forms: narratives, essays, and memoirs. Kidder and Todd draw candidly, sometimes comically, on their own experience—their mistakes as well as accomplishments—to demonstrate the pragmatic ways in which creative problems get solved. They also turn to the works of a wide range of writers, novelists as well as nonfiction writers, for models and instruction. They talk about narrative strategies (and about how to find a story, sometimes in surprising places), about the ethical challenges of nonfiction, and about the realities of making a living as a writer. They offer some tart and emphatic opinions on the current state of language. And they take a clear stand against playing loose with the facts. Their advice is always grounded in the practical world of writing and publishing.
Good Prose —like Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style— is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike. This wise and useful book is the perfect companion for anyone who loves to read good books and longs to write one.
Praise for Good Prose
“ Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction takes us into the back room behind the shop, where strong, effective, even beautiful sentences are crafted. Tracy Kidder and his longtime editor, Richard Todd, offer lots of useful advice, and, still more, they offer insight into the painstaking collaboration, thoughtfulness, and hard work that create the masterful illusion of effortless clarity.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
“ Good Prose offers consummate guidance from one of our finest writers and his longtime editor. Explaining that ‘the techniques of fiction never belonged exclusively to fiction,’ Kidder and Todd make a persuasive case that ‘no techniques of storytelling are prohibited to the nonfiction writer, only the attempt to pass off invention as facts.’ Writers of all stripes, from fledgling journalists to essayists of the highest rank, stand to benefit from this engrossing manual.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild
“What a pleasure to read a book about good prose written in such good prose! It will make many of its readers better writers (though none as good as Tracy Kidder, who sets an impossible standard), and it will make all of them wish they could hire Richard Todd to work his editorial magic on their words.”—Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, My Detachment, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.
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0 有用 Adynamia 2016-04-23 07:09:45
写得很粗糙,干货太少
2 有用 cherry it up 2017-05-26 23:09:59
适合初涉创意写作的学生阅读,提到了大部分非虚构文学写作会遇到的问题以及一些比较清晰可行的见解。
0 有用 Ray Wei 2017-11-04 02:18:36
I read many books on writing skills, this is no doubt one of the best. Great book.
0 有用 sister rat 2021-10-14 19:20:31
10/14 在了解“为什么这样写不好”这件事上还是有点用的
0 有用 坎顾 2021-04-18 22:31:47
有声书,还是有些真材实料的
0 有用 sister rat 2021-10-14 19:20:31
10/14 在了解“为什么这样写不好”这件事上还是有点用的
0 有用 坎顾 2021-04-18 22:31:47
有声书,还是有些真材实料的
0 有用 Ray Wei 2017-11-04 02:18:36
I read many books on writing skills, this is no doubt one of the best. Great book.
2 有用 cherry it up 2017-05-26 23:09:59
适合初涉创意写作的学生阅读,提到了大部分非虚构文学写作会遇到的问题以及一些比较清晰可行的见解。
0 有用 Adynamia 2016-04-23 07:09:45
写得很粗糙,干货太少