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The Story Begins : Essays on Literature
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The Story Begins : Essays on Literature Hardcover - 1999

by Oz, Amos

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  • Title The Story Begins : Essays on Literature
  • Author Oz, Amos
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Random House, New York
  • Date 1999-03-29
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP95642037
  • ISBN 9780151002979 / 0151002975
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.83 x 5.79 x 0.68 in (22.43 x 14.71 x 1.73 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Technique, Openings (Rhetoric)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98035353
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.3

Summary

In this collection of ten essays, Amos Oz shares his rich and rewarding experience as both writer and teacher. As he analyzes the opening sections of novels and short stories by such writers as Agnon, Gogol, Kafka, Chekhov, García Márquez, and Raymond Carver, Oz instructs, challenges, and guides. He writes about the notion of "beginnings," what the beginning of a novel or short story might "mean" to the author and how important it is. And best of all-he entertains. He highlights opening paragraphs in which authors make promises they may or may not deliver later in the work, or deliver in unexpected ways, or they may deliver more than they have promised. It is a game that miraculously and playfully engages both writer and reader. The Story Begins is a resourceful, accessible, and friendly companion for all students of literature and writing and for all book lovers.

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