The Faber Book of Writers on Writers

by Sean French

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An anthology recording the meetings of great writers. Includes Philip Roth dashing the hopes of a dying Bernard Malamud; Virginia Woolf glimpsing D H Lawrence on an Italian railway platform; Ben Jonson on Shakespeare; Evelyn Waugh on Graham Greene; Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on each other.

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Almost a slef-indulgent exercise in thoughts on writing, this book is not helpful to those wishing to "learn" techniques that can be applied to fiction writing. However, having said that, it is a very good resource for those wishing to tackle moderately difficult romanctic, realistic, modern, and postmodern works of literature with informal essays by respected authors. (

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An anthology recording the meetings of great writers. Includes Philip Roth dashing the hopes of a dying Bernard Malamud; Virginia Woolf glimpsing D H Lawrence on an Italian railway platform; Ben Jonson on Shakespeare; Evelyn Waugh on Graham Greene; Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes on each other.

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