
The Promise of Failure
One Writer's Perspective on Not Succeeding
John McNally(Author)
University of Iowa Press
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-60938-575-0 (ISBN)
Description
Part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching, but always honest. McNally uses his own life as a blueprint for the writer's daily struggles as well as the existential ones, tackling subjects such as when to quit and when to keep going, how to deal with depression, and ways to reenergize your writing through reinvention.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
224 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60938-575-0 (9781609385750)
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E-Book
06/2018
University Of Iowa Press
€24.49
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Person
John McNally is the author or editor of seventeen books, including The Boy Who Really, Really Wanted to Have Sex: The Memoir of a Fat Kid and Vivid and Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction (Iowa). McNally divides his time between Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Lafayette, Louisiana. He teaches at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.