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Reading life / Chris Arthur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arthur, C. J. (Christopher John), 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 202 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mobile, Alabama : Negative Capability Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Footnotes (reading my daughter's feet)
- Breath (reading an entry from the Goncourt brothers' ournal)
- Fuchsia (reading a patch of fallen blossom)
- When a dog barks late at night and then retires again to bed (reading Flann O'Brien's at swim-two-birds)
- Priests (reading fishing and desecration)
- When the time comes to lose them (reading Montaigne)
- Tracks (reading footprints in the snow)
- Sonatina for oboe and bayonet (reading all quiet on the western front)
- Describing a thought-path (reading a path along which I cycle nearly every day)
- Containing agostino (reading a copy of Alberto Moravia's novella)
- Scrimshaw (reading a whale's tooth)
- Coincidences, graces, gifts (reading Seamus Heaney)
- Memory sticks (reading three old walking sticks)
- Reading life (reading J. A. Baker's the peregrine)
- Afterword (reading essays).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780998677712
- 099867771X
- OCLC:
- 1005637432
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