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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021 'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too.…
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If you love to write, then this book will open up your thinking to different approaches in constructing a story of fiction.
The book was written by George Saunders, who is an accomplished author and a professor of writing at Syracuse University. He selected seven short stories from Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol and takes us through these narratives, asking questions about life, truth, and character.
As you are reading the stories, Mr. Saunders peppers you with questions that are aimed at eliciting what the story means to you, as well as shining a light on the technical aspects of…
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