Reading Life
Overview
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. Reading Life is, by turns, comic and serious, with chapters shifting in tonefrom a lyrical quality akin to Adam Gopniks to a tongue-in-cheek humor reminiscent of Ian Fraziers. The book transports the reader from the high desert landscape of Cathers New Mexico and the rocky coastline of E. B. Whites Maine to the pilgrimage paths of Cervantess Spain and the hallucinogenic heat of Bowless Morocco. At the heart of Reading Life is the belief that stories are vital to our existence. Books, like travel, compel us to venture into new worlds, to renew our acquaintance with old ones, and, ultimately, to learn how to see.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780881465211
- ISBN-10: 0881465216
- Publisher: Mercer University Press
- Publish Date: March 2015
- Dimensions: 8.81 x 6.46 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.13 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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