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First Paragraphs: Inspired Openings for Writers and Readers
by Donald Newlove
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company (1993-05)
ISBN: 0805025979
EAN: 9780805025972
Dewy Decimal #: 808.02
Paperback: 171 pages
SKU: 081508014
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting.....moderate cover wear..
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Newlove combines human insight, personal taste, and his own crackling talent as a writer to show writers how, with an inspired beginning, a work of genius can be created. The 75 selections here range from works as diverse as Dickens' Bleak House to more contemporary openings from Updike, Joyce, Welty, and Dinesen.
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Customer Reviews
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A Wonderful Appreciation
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-02-21
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I stumbled onto this small volume several years ago quite by accident, never having heard of Donald Newlove. Happily, I found that Mr. Newlove is widely read and has a gift for articulating his thoughtful appreciation of the literature (first paragraphs) that he carefully selects and reviews. He is among the increasingly rare critics who inspire a closer reading of the works reviewed.
I would also recommend his later work "Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers" for its insight and poignancy.
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Energetic and Inspiring!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-04-27
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a fine read -- for every great reader or writer. Donald Newlove has gathered from literature some of the finest first paragraphs ever written! The works of authors such as Isak Dinesen, Melville, and Hemingway are looked at in a wonderful way. This book is as energizing and inspiring as a savouring cup of coffee!
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