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Reading Life: Books for the Ages
Reading Life Books for the Ages
Author: Sven Birkerts
A new, compelling collection of essays by Sven Birkerts, “one of America’s most distinguished, eloquent servants of the poetry and fiction that matter” (Susan Sontag) — Reading, the mind’s traffic in signs and signifiers, is the most dynamic, changeful, and possibly transformational act we can imagine. To have re...  more » In Reading Life, virtuoso critic and essayist Sven Birkerts examines what it means to return to resonant works of fiction—the books one thinks of “covetously, as private properties,” the “personal signposts” of one’s inner life. For Birkerts, these include The Catcher in the Rye, Humboldt’s Gift, To the Lighthouse, and Lolita. In twelve far-reaching and intimate essays, Birkerts reflects upon his first readings and what later encounters reveal about time, memory, and the murmuring transistors of selfhood.
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ISBN-13: 9781555974640
ISBN-10: 1555974643
Publication Date: 4/3/2007
Pages: 256
Edition: Hardback
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Publisher: Graywolf Press
Book Type: Paperback
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