Cartes a un jove escriptor

Colum McCann, winner of several literary awards and a writer recognized around the world, has been a teacher of creative writing in New York for twenty years. Based on his experience in the literary field, and also in teaching, he gives us fifty-two short essays, fifty-two letters to young writers - following in the footsteps of Rainer Maria Rilke - about the craft of writing; from where to write, how to face the blank page, dedication and constancy or the importance of the first sentence to how to choose a literary agent, what to ask of the relationship with a publisher and how to handle literary critics. Letters to a young writer is an enlightening and elegant collection, clear, useful and precise, a tribute to the power of language and a call to the inescapable commitment to the craft.