Monkeys With Typewriters

Author: Scarlett Thomas

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780857863782
Publisher : Canongate Books Ltd
Imprint : Canongate Books Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.454
Publication date : 31 August 2012
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Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Scarlett Thomas
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Dewey classification : 808.042
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Description

Stories are everywhere...Exploring the great plots from Plato to The Matrix and from Tolstoy to Toy Story, this is a book for anyone who wants to unlock any narrative and learn to create their own. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, this is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to read and write better.

Reviews

Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great storyteller. - Financial Times

Author description

Scarlett Thomas is Reader in Creative Writing at Kent University, where she has taught since 2004. She is the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, PopCo and seven other novels.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.