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Author:	Anna Quindlen	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Ballantine Books	ISBN-10:	0345422783
ISBN-13:	9780345422781	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	1998
Subject:	Literature & Fiction	Language:	English
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In this extended essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen writes charmingly about her lifelong obsession with books. From a childhood spent with Nancy Drew and Heidi--when reading could often be more pleasurable than anything else--to her adult musings about which 10 books she would save from a fire, Quindlen eloquently defends the practice of compulsive reading, whether of the great classics or the ephemeral literature of the day. Throughout, she makes clear that her vocation as a writer, and her strong response to prejudice, intolerance, and injustice, came directly from her love of books. Her stirring appreciation is a persuasive document that should warm the hearts of readers everywhere, and perhaps inspire nonreaders to see what all the excitement is about.
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Series:	Library of Contemporary Thought

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Length:	84 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	0.2 in.
Weight:	4.0 oz.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and bestselling author Anna Quindlen uses the mastery of the medium in which she works to send an utterly compelling message as she explores the importance of books in her life and their vital role in society. THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where Americas finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural, will enlighten, comfort, entertain, enrage, and ignite healthy debate across the country.
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Readers who miss best-selling novelist Quindlen's newspaper column will welcome the return of her engaging voice in this latest addition to Ballantine's "Library of Contemporary Thought," a series of short, inexpensive trade paperback originals. Never stodgy or academic, Quindlen ties her own experience to reading habits in general and the ways they have changed over the last 100 years, including the recent influence of Oprah. She concludes with a series of arbitrary and capricious reading lists that could give librarians ideas: "10 Books That Will Help a Teenager Feel More Human," "10 Mystery Novels I'd Most Like To Find in a Summer Rental," "10 Modern Novels That Made Me Proud To Be a Writer," etc. This little book for book lovers, an excellent choice for reading groups, is recommended for all libraries. Mary Paumier Jones, Westminster P.L., Lafayette, CO Kakutani In this pithy celebration of the power and joys of reading, Quindlen emphasizes that books are not simply a means of imparting knowledge, but also a way to strengthen emotional connectedness, to lessen isolation, to explore alternate realities and to challenge the established order. To these ends much of the book forms a plea for intellectual freedom as well as a personal paean to reading. Quindlen (One True Thing) recalls her own early love affair with reading; writes with unabashed fervor of books that shaped her psychosexual maturation (John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, Mary McCarthy's The Group); and discusses the books that made her a liberal committed to fighting social injustice (Dickens, the Bible). She compares reading books to intimate friendship both activities enable us to deconstruct the underpinnings of interpersonal problems and relationships. Her analysis of the limitations of the computer screen is another rebuttal of those who predict the imminent demise of the book. In order to further inspire potential readers, she includes her own admittedly "arbitrary and capricious" reading lists "The 10 books I would save in a fire," "10 modern novels that made me proud to be a writer," "10 books that will help a teenager feel more human" and various other categories. But most of all, like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, this essay is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary and a pleasure to read. (Sept.) FYI: This is the latest in Ballantine's Library of Contemporary Thought. Bukey

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0345422783
Title : How Reading Changed My Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Authors : Anna Quindlen
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Publication Date : 08-25-1998
Pages : 96
List Price (MSRP) : $10.00
Weight : 0.3 pounds
Keywords : Authors, General, Literary Theory, History of Books, Quindlen, Anna
Condition : Good

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