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Why I Read : the serious pleasure of books / Wendy Lesser.

By:

Lesser, Wendy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 223 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9781250062093

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

028.9 LES

LOC classification:

Z1003 .L543 2014

Contents:

Summary: In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through literature. As Lesser writes in her foreword, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it." Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	028.9 LES (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		049450

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Includes index.

Prologue: why I read -- Character and plot -- The space between -- Novelty -- Authority -- Grandeur and intimacy -- Elsewhere -- Inconclusions -- Afterword: the book as physical object.

In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through literature. As Lesser writes in her foreword, "Reading can result in boredom or transcendence, rage or enthusiasm, depression or hilarity, empathy or contempt, depending on who you are and what the book is and how your life is shaping up at the moment you encounter it." Here the reader will discover a definition of literature that is as broad as it is broad-minded. In addition to novels and stories, Lesser explores plays, poems, and essays along with mysteries, science fiction, and memoirs. Why I Read sparks an overwhelming desire to put aside quotidian tasks in favor of reading.

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