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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Author: Leah Price

Publisher: Hachette UK

ISBN: 9781541673908

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 224

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Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the curiosity to look beyond the day's news, the willingness to be alone. The shelves of the world's great libraries, though, tell a more complicated story. Examining the wear and tear on the books that they contain, English professor Leah Price finds scant evidence that a golden age of reading ever existed. From the dawn of mass literacy to the invention of the paperback, most readers already skimmed and multitasked. Print-era doctors even forbade the very same silent absorption now recommended as a cure for electronic addictions. The evidence that books are dying proves even scarcer. In encounters with librarians, booksellers and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike. Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, 2020
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
Language: en
Pages: 224

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Authors: Leah Price
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-20 - Publisher: Hachette UK

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Language: en
Pages: 144

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Authors: Raymond Carver
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-28 - Publisher: Random House

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Language: en
Pages: 0

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

Authors: Nathan Englander
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-05 - Publisher: Vintage

From the Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, eight powerful stories, dazzling in their display of language and imagination. From the title story, a provocative portrait of two marriages inspired by Raymond Carver’s masterpiece, to “Peep Show” and “How We Avenged the Blums,” two stories that
The Book Group Book
Language: en
Pages: 356

The Book Group Book

Authors: Ellen Slezak
Categories: Group reading
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher:

Seventeen new essays and 37 new book lists have been added to this classic primer on book groups. Here is everything any book lover needs to know about forming and enjoying a successful book discussion group. Forty-six essays describe how individual groups are organized and portray their strengths, weaknesses, and
Raymond Carver
Language: en
Pages: 204

Raymond Carver

Authors: Ewing Campbell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

"Perhaps the most significant and influential figure in this century's wave of American realism, Raymond Carver (1938-1988) is credited not only with reviving the short story as an artistically legitimate form, but also with perfecting minimalist fiction. His 1981 collection, What We Talk about When We Talk about Love, remains

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