- Books and reading, Bibliofilie, Reading interests, Essays (single author)
In these eighteen essays, Anne Fadiman "recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language."--Jacket.
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Warm, character-led, spare and classical in form.
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Fadiman
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 153
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Diogenes
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783257236460
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First sentence
“A few months ago, my husband and I decided to mix our books together.”
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