{"product_id":"9781786071651","title":"How to Write Like Tolstoy : A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers by Richard Cohen","description":"A?Spectator?Best Book of the Year`This book is a wry, critical friend to both writer and reader. It is filled with cogent examples and provoking statements. You will agree or quarrel with each page, and be a sharper writer and reader by the end.' Hilary Mantel`There are three rules for writing a novel,' Somerset Maugham once said. `Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.'So how to bring characters to life, find a voice, kill your darlings, avoid plagiarism (or choose not to), or run that most challenging of literary gauntlets-writing a good sex scene?Veteran editor and author Richard Cohen takes us on a fascinating excursion into the lives and minds of our greatest writers-from Balzac and Eliot to Woolf and Nabokov, through to Zadie Smith and Stephen King, with a few mischievous detours to Tolstoy along the way. In a glittering tour d'horizon, he lays bare their tricks, motivations, techniques, obsessions and flaws.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304698065269,"sku":"9781786071651","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786071651.jpg?v=1762796344","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781786071651","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}