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Byrne, Leigh
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Fiction
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2013
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Mandylan Books
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English
β 137 KB
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B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal
β Scribed by Hallman, J C
- Book ID
- 108092719
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781451682007
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life--and a wink of the eye to U and I , Nicholson Baker's classic book about John Updike--by an award-winning author called "wonderfully bright" by The New York Times Book Review.
Nearly twenty-five years ago, Nicholson Baker published U and I, the fretful and handwringing--but also groundbreaking--tale of his literary relationship with John Updike. U and I inspired a whole sub-genre of engaging, entertaining writing about reading, but what no story of this type has ever done is tell its tale from the moment of conception, that moment when you realize that there is a writer out there in the world that you must read--so you read them. B & Me is that story, the story of J.C. Hallman discovering and reading Nicholson Baker, and discovering himself in the process.
Our relationship to books in the digital age, the role of art in an increasingly...
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