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A love of reading: the second collection: more reviews of contemporary fiction: collection

✍ Scribed by Robert Adams

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Year: 2003
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 198 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1551994488

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✦ Synopsis

Fourteen brilliant new reviews from the author of A Love of Reading _. Passionate, thought provoking, and witty.

A Love of Reading, the Second Collection_ contains 14 new reviews of modern classics from a discriminating, highly entertaining, and prodigiously well-read guide.

In a stimulating selection, ranging from Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace to Zadie Smith's White Teeth , and from Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain to Sheri Holman's The Dress Lodger , popular literary critic Robert Adams skilfully interweaves a nimble and enlightening discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. Adams is repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of less-than-perfect humans making their way in a hostile world, and as a result his reviews are a hugely satisfying mix of rich pathos and abundant humour. In the words of the Calgary Herald , they are "a bibliophile's...

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