John Hough Jr : 4 books
The Fiction Writer's Guide to Dialogue
A Fresh Look at an Essential Ingredient of the Craft
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Dialogue is often overlooked as a necessary and potent instrument in the novelist’s repertoire. A novel can rise or fall on the strength of its dialogue. Superb dialogue can make a superb novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, Action is character.” George V. Higgins said, Dialogue is character.”...
Seen the Glory
A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
John Hough’s superbly readable historical novel, the revealing coming-of-age story of two young brothers fighting in the civil War, evokes the hardships and camaraderie of ordinary soldiers and civilians set against the bloody drama of the battle of Gettysburg.
• Brilliant characters: raised...
Little Bighorn
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2014
A teenager seeks glory with General Custer but instead finds a dream gone awry in this “American masterwork” set in 1876 Montana Territory (Howard Frank Mosher).
Eighteen year-old Allen Winslow is living what should be every young man’s dream. Thanks to his mother’s charming intercession,...
The Last Summer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2003
A classic love story, The Last Summer chronicles a young man on the verge of growing up and an older woman running away from a life out of control.
It is the summer of 1968: The world is poised on the cusp of radical change. Politicians question the status quo, blacks react to decades of oppression,...