Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction

by Lisa Zeidner

Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with--first and third person--and moves beyond to second-person narration,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393356116
• ISBN13: 9780393356113
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Lisa Zeidner is a great dynamic author giving the topic of Point-of-View dynamic and FUN!

I am a writer myself working on my first book a young peoples fiction that has lots of dialogue between characters! There are sad scenes! So I decided to buy this book on Point-of-View! I am pleasantly surprised how author Lisa Zeidner makes this topic FUN!