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Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

Paperback • 2006 • English

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt: Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism

By Nick Hornby

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About the book

In this latest collection of essays following The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and Engli...Show more

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ISBN

9781932416596

Publisher

McSweeney's

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

Format

Paperback

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