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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Introduction: Where Writers Learn Their Best Moves
1. X-raying Gatsby: Power of the Parts
2. X-raying Lolita: Words at Play
3. X-raying Hemingway and Didion: Words Left Out
4. X-raying James Joyce: Language as Sacrament
5. X-raying Sylvia Plath: Jolt of Insight
6. X-raying Flannery O’Connor: Dragon’s Teeth
7. X-raying “The Lottery”: Piling Stones
8. X-raying Madame Bovary: Signs of Inner Life
9. X-raying Miss Lonelyhearts and A Visit from the Goon Squad: Texts Within Texts
10. X-raying King Lear and The Grapes of Wrath: Tests of Character
11. X-raying Gabriel García Márquez: Making It Strange
12. X-raying Homer, Virgil, Roth—and Hitchcock: Zooming In
13. X-raying Chaucer: Pointing the Way
14. X-raying Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Careless Wish
15. X-raying Macbeth: Ends of Things
16. X-raying Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Shaking the Form
17. X-raying Moby-Dick: Three Little Words
18. X-raying W. B. Yeats: Sacred Center
19. X-raying Zora Neale Hurston: Words on Fire
20. X-raying Harper Lee: Weight of the Wait
21. X-raying M. F. K. Fisher: Cooking a Story
22. X-raying Hiroshima: Stopped Clock
23. X-raying Rachel Carson and Laura Hillenbrand: Sea Inside Us
24. X-raying Toni Morrison: Repetitious Variation
25. X-raying Charles Dickens and Donna Tartt: Echo of Text
Great Sentences from Famous Authors: An Exercise in X-ray Reading
Twelve Steps to Get Started as an X-ray Reader
Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
About the Author
Books by Roy Peter Clark
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Table of Contents
Copyright
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