In 1979 John Gardner was invited by the literary copyright owners to carry on with James Bond where Ian Fleming left off so far he has produced twelve titles, including Licence Renewed, Death is Forever and Never Send Flowers. After several other thrillers came his successful trilogy about Herbie Kruger, comprising The Nostradamus Traitor, The Garden of Weapons and The Quiet Dogs. The author of nine novels, Gardner also wrote short stories, poetry, criticism, translations, screenplays, libretti, and childrens books. His first book was the autobiographical Spin the Bottle, shortly followed by eight novels about his famous character Boysie Oakes, the agent who always blundered while retaining a paradoxical sense of schoolboy humour. The Art of Fiction book by John Gardner Education & Reference Books > Writing Skill Books ISBN: 111066074X ISBN13: 9781110660742 The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions by John Gardner See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.09 - 4.29 Paperback 3.99 - 4.69 Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good 4.

Back in England, and once more a civilian, he continued his interrupted education at St John's College, Cambridge, eventually ending up as drama and art critic on the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, where he began to write plays in his spare time.

Educated at King Alfred's School, Wantage, he served with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, at the end of World War II. For the young writer, it will become a necessary handbook, a stern judge, an encouraging friend.'-The New York Times Book Review. The Art of Fiction will fascinate anyone interested in how fiction gets put together. Born in 1926, John Gardner lived his first years in the bleak mining village of Seaton Delaval near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 'The Art of Fiction' is Henry James's attempt to rebuke the claims made in Sir Walter Besant's lecture 'Fiction as One of the Fine Arts.' Besant argued that fiction required both talent and. 'John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his.

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