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Confessions of a Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman
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Publication Date: 02/03/2000
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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 come across my desk in a long while...witty, enchanting and supremely well-written' -- Robert McCrum, Observer
ISBN:
9780140283709
9780140283709
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
02-03-2000
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
181x112x11mm
Weight:
0.1kg

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These finely crafted essays celebrating books, reading and words will appeal to people who are beguiled by words and eat books (metaphorically and sometimes literally). There are whole families of them out there and Anne Fadiman is from one of them. It is also book for those who love those poor tortured beings who twitch at typos, smart at superfluous apostrophes and love reading so much that they look for haiku while they are devouring a shopping catalogue. More than that, the personal tone, humour and the unostentatious display of research that underpins all of these pieces makes this collection a mini master class on how to write a great essay.

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