Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Brossura

Fadiman, Anne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374527229 ISBN 13: 9780374527228

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000

Riassunto

A superbly written collection of essays discusses with humor, grace, and moving eloquence the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Anne Fadiman is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, an L.A. Times Book Prize, and a Salon Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collection At Large and At Small and the editor of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love. Her essays and articles have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.

Product Description:

This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story, and revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay with anecdotes on Coleridge and Orwell as well as her own literary family. 25,000.

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0374527229
• ISBN 13: 9780374527228
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162