Wendy Lesser
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
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A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal-it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor and humor, this inspired intellectual romp, part memoir, part criticism takes us on a guided tour of the author's own return to books she once knew-from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, fr…
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A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal-it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor and humor, this inspired intellectual romp, part memoir, part criticism takes us on a guided tour of the author's own return to books she once knew-from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth-as she reflects on how the passage of time and the experience of aging has affected her perceptions of them (Lawrence Weschler). A cultural critic and the acclaimed author of Why I Read, Wendy Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we've read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer. Delightful. -Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce Anyone who has ever approached a once favorite book later in life . . . will find in this memoir moments of bittersweet recognition. -The New York Times Book Review Reflect[s] deeply and candidly on how a reader's life experiences alter her perceptions of literature . . . [Lesser] has truly fascinating and original things to say about a compelling assortment of writers, including George Orwell, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Dostoyevsky, and Shakespeare. -Booklist
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-547-34689-2
- EAN: 9780547346892
- Produktnummer: 31906010
- Verlag: Mariner Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 535 KB
Über den Autor
Wendy Lesser is the author of His Other Half: Men Looking at Women through Art; Pictures at an Execution; A Director Calls (Faber and Faber, UK, 97), a biography of Stephen Daldry; and The Amateur, an intellectual biography exploring the intersection of art and experience (Pantheon, 99). A winner of the Pen/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 1997, Lesser was also editor of Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography.
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