| Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books Contributor(s): Kanigel, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0963124676 ISBN-13: 9780963124678 Publisher: Bancroft Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: Presents a collection of essays unlike any other stuffy attempt at introducing the modern reader to the Great Books. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.06" W x 9.03" (0.96 lbs) 243 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Story Easton knows the first line of every book, but never the last.She never cries, but she fakes it beautifully.And at night, she escapes from the failure of her own life by breaking into the homes of others, and feeling, for a short while, like a different, better person.But one night, as an uninvited guest in someone's empty room, she discovers a story sadder than her own: a boy named Cooper Payne, whose dream of visiting the Amazon rainforest and discovering the moonflower from his favorite book, Once Upon a Moonflower, died alongside his father.For reasons even she doesn't entirely understand, Story decides that she will help Cooper and his mother. She will make his dream come true.The Understory is a magical, moving, funny, and poignant story of failure and success; of falling apart and rebuilding; and of coincidences that never really are. Part comedy, part drama, and part fairy tale, Elizabeth Leiknes's second novel is a wonder you won't soon forget. |