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Letters to a Young Writer

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Letters to a Young Writer

By Colum McCann

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About the book

I hope there is something here for any young writer - or any older writer, for that matter - who happens to be looking for a teacher to come along, a teacher who, in the end, can really teach nothing at all but fire.From the critically acclaimed Colum McCann, author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin, comes a paean to the power of language, and a direct address to the artistic, professional and philosophical concerns that challenge and sometimes torment an author. Compris...Show more

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9781526600943

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2018

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1

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Letters to a Young Writer

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Paperback

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