Invented Voices
Inspired Dialogue For Writers And Readers
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
In First Paragraphs, Donald Newlove presented his personal selection of the winningest openings in world literature. In Painted Paragraphs, he did the same for the best descriptive passages ever written. Now, in Invented Voices, Newlove shares with us his choices for the most convincing, the most entertaining, the most memorable pieces of dialogue ever to hit the page--from novels, short stories, movie scripts, and plays.
Among Newlove's favorites are exchanges from novels as diverse as Jane Austen's Pride Prejudice and Terry McMillan's Disappearing Acts; drama that ranges from Beckett's Waiting for Godot to Chekhov's The Seagull; movie scripts that include Raging Bull, On the Waterfront, Howards End, and Children of Paradise. But Newlove does more here than just catalog great dialogue. By catching at full bloom the talents of great writers, he inspires and instructs the rest of us to shake off artifice and safety and invent voices that are rich, real, and from the heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this final volume of his trilogy about the craft of writing, which includes First Paragraghs and Painted Paragraphs , Newlove presents 75 pieces of dialogue he deems memorable from fiction, theater, movies and television. His selections are drawn from such classics as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , Shakespeare's Hamlet and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot as well as from the screenplays for Ironweed , Raging Bull , Howard's End and other films . Newlove argues that the only rule of dialogue is that it must entertain. He accompanies each of his eclectic choices with a trenchant and lively analysis of the way speech is used to engage the audience by illuminating character and structuring plot. He discusses, for example, how the success of TV's Roseanne was dependent on the cumulative effect of dialogue between consistent characters. Newlove's instructive examples should be of assistance to writers working in all media.
