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23%OFFDavid Galef - Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook - 9780231179683 - V9780231179683
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Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook

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Description for Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied origins, from the short-short to nanofiction, with examples that include vignettes, prose poems, character sketches, fables, lists, twist stories, surrealism, and metafiction. The authors range from the famous, such as Colette and Borges, to today's voices, like Roxane Gay and Bruce Holland Rogers. A writer and longtime creative writing teacher, Galef also shows how flash fiction skills translate to ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231179683
SKU
V9780231179683
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About David Galef
David Galef has published over a dozen books, including the novels Flesh, Turning Japanese, and How to Cope with Suburban Stress; the short story collections Laugh Track and My Date with Neanderthal Woman; and the short story anthology 20 Over 40. He is a professor of English and the creative writing program director at Montclair State University.

Reviews for Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook
If I had to choose just one book for my class in writing flash fiction, it would be this one. Practical, direct, wonderful examples, fun to read-if this book doesn't energize your writing, nothing will.
Robert Shapard, coeditor of Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories Brevity represents a useful addition to the range of current creative writing texts, combining an ... Read more

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