Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading Contributor(s): Rose, Phyllis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374535361 ISBN-13: 9780374535360 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
Dewey: 028.9 |
LCCN: 2013034092 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Library's stacks, she chose a shelf of fiction almost at random and read her way through it. Unsure of what she would find, she was nonetheless certain "that no one in the history of the world had read exactly this series of novels." |
Contributor Bio(s): Rose, Phyllis: - Phyllis Rose is the author of A Woman of Letters, a biography of Virginia Woolf that was a finalist for the 1979 National Book Award; Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages; Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time; The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time; and two collections of essays. She divides her time between Key West and New York City. |