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    About Letters to a Young Writer

    From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.

    Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear.

    A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them.

    These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

    About Letters to a Young Writer

    From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.

    Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear.

    A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them.

    These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

    About Letters to a Young Writer

    From the bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Let the Great World Spin comes a lesson in how to be a writer—and so much more than that.

    Intriguing and inspirational, this book is a call to look outward rather than inward. McCann asks his readers to constantly push the boundaries of experience, to see empathy and wonder in the stories we craft and hear.

    A paean to the power of language, both by argument and by example, Letters to a Young Writer is fierce and honest in its testament to the bruises delivered by writing as both a profession and a calling. It charges aspiring writers to learn the rules and even break them.

    These fifty-two essays are ultimately a profound challenge to a new generation to bring truth and light to a dark world through their art.

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    About Colum McCann

    Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages…. More about Colum McCann

    About Colum McCann

    Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages…. More about Colum McCann

    About Colum McCann

    Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages…. More about Colum McCann

    Product Details

    Category: Reference

    Hardcover | $25.00
    Published by Random House
    Apr 04, 2017 | 192 Pages | 4-13/16 x 7-1/4 | ISBN 9780399590801

    Category: Reference

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Random House
    Apr 04, 2017 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780399590818

    Category: Reference | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $12.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 04, 2017 | 159 Minutes | ISBN 9781524781514

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    Praise

    Praise for the fiction of Colum McCann

    Let the Great World Spin
    Winner of the National Book Award

    “One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years.”—Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times Book Review

    “There’s so much passion and humor and pure life force on every page that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed.”—Dave Eggers

    TransAtlantic
    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

    “Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

    “Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.”—The Seattle Times

    Thirteen Ways of Looking
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    “The irreducible mystery of human experience ties this small collection together, and in each of these stories McCann explores that theme in strikingly effective ways.”—The Washington Post

    “Extraordinary . . . incandescent.”—Chicago Tribune

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