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Draft No. 4

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Draft No. 4

By John McPhee

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About the book

Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape non fiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work, subjecting them to wry scrutiny. In one essa...Show more

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9780374537975

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Draft No. 4

Format

Paperback

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