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How Reading Changed My Life

Paperback • 2010 • English

How Reading Changed My Life

By Anna Quindlen

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A recurring theme throughout Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life is the comforting premise that readers are never alone. "There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books," she writes, "a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but never really a stranger. My real, true world." Later, she quotes editor Hazel Rochman: "Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most ...Show more

Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Biography and non-fiction prose

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ISBN

9780345422781

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

How Reading Changed My Life

Format

Paperback

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