Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
$31.04
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2000
Summary
Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father’s copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. EX LIBRIS wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. ‘One of the most delightful volumes to have …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140283709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140283706 |
| Author: | Anne Fadiman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2000 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 112mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman is editor of The American Scholar and an award-winning journalist. Her first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the US National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction. She lives in New York City.
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