Reading life : books for the ages / Sven Birkerts.

Author/creator Birkerts, Sven
Format Book
Publication InfoSaint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf, ©2007.
Description191 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Birkerts, Sven--Books and reading.
Books and reading.
Literature and morals.
Literature, Modern--19th century. --History and criticism.
Literature, Modern--20th century. --History and criticism.

Contents The reading life -- Children's crusade : J.D. Salinger's The catcher in the rye -- Love's wound, love's salve : Knut Hamsun's Pan -- "I don't believe that" : D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- Romancing the self : Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- The mad energies of art : Saul Bellow's Humboldt's gift -- The murderer's fancy prose style : Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita -- The possibility of the search : Walker Percy's The moviegoer -- The saddest story, indeed : Ford Madox Ford's The good soldier -- "Live all you can" : Henry James's The ambassadors -- Into the blue paint : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- The tether of origins : Alice Munro's The beggar maid : stories of Flo and Rose.
LCCN 2006929504
ISBN9781555974640 (pbk.)
ISBN1555974643 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks Z1003 .B572 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold