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Remarkable reads : 34 writers and their adventures in reading / edited by J. Peder Zane.

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Zane, J. Peder.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Authors, American--20th century--Books and reading.; Authors, American.; Authors--20th century--Books and reading.; Authors.; Books and reading.
Physical Description:: 261 pages ; 21 cm
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: New York : Norton, [2004]
Summary:: In personal essays that read like short stories, writers describe their life-altering encounters with books. CAN BOOKS BE DANGEROUS, elegant, or sad? Can books be tempting, or smokin', or double-d-daring? Can they compel you to hitchhike to the middle of Mexico, fall in love with snakes, or question your sanity? Of course they can. Writers including Jonathan Lethem, Haven Kimmel, Charles Frazier, and Bebe Moore Campbell tell us why in this eye-opening anthology. Tapping classic works such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Cat in the Hat as well as obscure novels such as Karel Capek's The War of the Newts, they reveal how literature tempts, enchants, and changes us. Each of these essays, which first appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, reminds us that reading is not a passive pastime but an action sport that seizes and shapes, renews and remakes us. Insightful and heartfelt, humorous and accessible. Remarkable Reads will delight anyone who has ever loved a book.
Contents:: Introduction : adventures in reading / by J. Peder Zane; The most memorable book I read / Bebe Moore Campbell; The loneliest book I read / Jonathan Lethem; The most enchanting book I read / Betty Adock; The most important book I read / Denise Gess; The most daunting book I read / Lee K. Abbott; The most resonant book I read / Scott Weidensaul; The most dangerous book I read / Frederick Busch; The wisest book I read / Robert Morgan; The classiest book I read / Eric Wright; The most eloquent book I read / Anthony Walton; The maddest book I read / Joan Barfoot; The most double-d-daring book I read / Marianne Gingher; The most hippest book I read / J. Peder Zane; The most familiar book I read / Haven Kimmel; The most incomprehensible book I read / H.W. Brands; The most devastating book I read / Ben Marcus; The most apocalyptic book I read / Lydia Millet; The saddest book I read / Nasdijj; The most fragile book I read / Bret Lott; The most beautiful book I read / Jill McCorkle; The most tempting book I read / Charles Frazier; The most fearless book I read / Elizabeth Hay; The most intuitive book I read / Aimee Bender; The most Scottish book I read / Margot Livesey; The most technically elegant book I read / Clyde Edgerton; The queerest book I read / Peter Cameron; The most exotic book I read / Fred Chappell; The most smokin' book I read / Sven Birkerts; The most seductive books I read / Peggy Payne; The most elegant book I read / Howard Bahr; The most surprising book I read / Peter Gay; The most disappointing book I read / Marvin Hunt; The most unpleasant book I read / Doris Betts; The most luminous book I read / Lee Smith.
Notes:: Essays which first appeared in the Raleigh News & observer.
ISBN:: 0393325407
OCLC:: 53215717

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