Writing a Novel

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0698105842 . [minor shelfwear, very light dust-soiling to top edge of text block; jacket lightly edgeworn, shows a bit of scuffing to front panel]. "A directly useful handbook from the bestselling author of Room at the Top," which employs "passages from key contemporary writers [and] assesses the essentials of style and skill that all good writers share and every novice writer can learn." Among the writers excerpted are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, John O'Hara, and Anthony Powell. . (Inventory #: 22445)