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This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of
revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to
the modes and methods of drafting, revising and editing. Offering
an overview of how creative writing is generated and improved, the
chapters address questions of how creative writers revise, why
editing is such a crucial part of the creative process and how
understanding the theories underpinning revision can enhance
writers' projects. Innovative and thought-provoking, this book is
ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of creative
writing, along with all creative writers looking to hone and polish
their craft.
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Bluff (Paperback)
Michael Kardos
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R412
R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
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The magician's job is to create a mystery--an unbridgeable gap
between cause and effect. Michael Kardos brilliantly constructs his
new novel Bluff as a magician would, delivering a perfectly
calibrated performance of intrigue and, ultimately, astonishment.
At twenty-seven, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. A
card-trick prodigy, she started touring at seventeen, took first
place at the World of Magic competition at eighteen, and never
reached such heights again. Shunned by the magic world after a
disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone with
her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment.
In a desperate ploy to make extra cash, she follows up on an old
offer to write a feature magazine article--on the art of cheating
at cards. But when she meets the perfect subject for her article,
what begins as a journalistic gamble brings into question
everything Natalie thinks she knows about her talent, and herself.
Natalie is dazzled by the poker cheat's sleight of hand and soon
finds herself facing a proposition that could radically alter her
fortune--to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done
successfully, no one will ever even suspect happened. With Kardos
raising the stakes chapter after chapter, Bluff is a breathtaking
work of suspense from a writer at the top of his game.
"Michael Kardos's soulful stories take place in that hard-luck
corner of New Jersey where rock and roll dreams crash into
blue-collar reality. One Last Good Time is a remarkable debut
collection, full of stories that are funny and melancholy at the
same time." - Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The
Abstinence Teacher. "One Last Good Time is one of the sharpest,
funniest, and most compassionate debuts you will ever have the good
fortune to read. Without a doubt, Michael Kardos is a truly gifted
writer and a vibrant new voice in American letters." - Donald Ray
Pollock, author of Knockemstiff
She's only alive because he thinks she's already dead... Everyone
in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a
Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a block
party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter
and disappeared. But everyone is wrong. Ramsey's daughter survived.
Now she's eighteen and sick of hiding from her father. She's going
to end this. But can she find him before he finds her?
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