{"product_id":"books-good-prose-by-tracy-kidder","title":"Good Prose","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"smart, lucid, and entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) modern classic of writing advice and a thoughtful record of the long and productive literary friendship between two renowned authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"You are in such good company--congenial, ironic, a bit old-school--that you're happy to follow [Kidder and Todd] where they lead you.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"As approachable and applicable as any writing manual available.\"--Associated Press\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The story begins in 1973, in the Boston offices of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, where a young freelance writer named Tracy Kidder finds his first assignment from an editor named Richard Todd. Before long, Kidder's \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of a New Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book the two worked on together, has won a Pulitzer Prize, and a lifelong education in the art of nonfiction has begun.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eGood Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, Kidder and Todd draw candidly on their own experience to offer advice to writers of all kinds. They explore three major nonfiction forms--narratives, essays, and memoirs--and examine the creative strategies and ethical challenges of nonfiction and the realities of making a living as a writer. \u003ci\u003eGood Prose\u003c\/i\u003e--like Strunk and White's \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Style\u003c\/i\u003e--is a succinct, authoritative, and entertaining arbiter of standards in contemporary writing, offering guidance for the professional writer and the beginner alike.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507685515537,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780812982152.jpg?v=1778132578","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-good-prose-by-tracy-kidder","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}