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Thrill Me

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Percy

Book ID: 110567232
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 218 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781555979546

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Bold new essays on how to craft a thrilling read --in any genre--from the bestselling author of The Dead Lands

Anyone familiar with the meteoric rise of Benjamin Percy's career will surely have noticed a certain shift: After writing two short-story collections and a literary novel, he delivered the werewolf thriller Red Moon and the postapocalyptic epic The Dead Lands. Now, in his first book of nonfiction, Percy challenges the notion that literary and genre fiction are somehow mutually exclusive. The title essay is an ode to the kinds of books that make many readers fall in love with fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, horror, from J.R.R. Tolkien to Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin to Stephen King. Percy's own academic experience banished many of these writers in the name of what is "literary" and what is "genre." Then he discovered Michael Chabon, Aimee Bender, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood, and others who employ techniques...

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