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Reading Life

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Reading Life

By Michael Pearson

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About the book

A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship between books and experience, dramatizing and reflecting on how stories lead us into the world, and how we transform that engagement with the world back into personal narrative. A love story about books and travel, Reading Life is, by turns, comic and serious. Chapters shift in tone--from a lyrical quality akin to Adam Gopnik's to a tongue-in-cheek humo...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780881465211

Publisher

Mercer University Press

Published year

2015

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Reading Life

Format

Paperback

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