Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering - Couverture souple

Lesser, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0618340815 ISBN 13 : 9780618340811

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2003

Synopsis

From the esteemed cultural critic and journalist Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same is a bibliophile's dream: a book about the pleasures and surprises of rereading, a witty, intelligent exploration of what books can mean to our lives. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal -- it involves the interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor, humor, and grace, Lesser takes us on a guided tour of her own return to books she once knew, from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth. Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we've read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Wendy Lesser is an acclaimed critic and founder of The Threepenny Review. She is also the author of over a dozen books, including The Amateur, Scandinavian Noir, Why I Read, and You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Her numerous awards and honors include the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing, an NEH Public Scholar Award, and the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She divides her year between Berkeley and New York, and sometimes adds in Berlin as well.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0618340815
• ISBN 13: 9780618340811
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible