The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition
by Andy Miller
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A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir.
Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved, and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how busy or tired he was, something kept niggling at him. Books. Books he'd always wanted to read. Books he'd said he'd read that he actually hadn't. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the daily grind. And so, with the turn of a page, Andy began a year of reading that was to transform his life completely.
This book is Andy's inspirational and very funny account of his expedition through literature: classic, cult, and everything in between. Beginning with a copy of Bulgakov's Master and Margarita that he happens to find one day in a bookstore, he embarks on a literary odyssey. From Middlemarch to Anna Karenina to A Confederacy of Dunces, this is a heartfelt, humorous, and honest examination of what it means to be a reader, and a witty and insightful journey of discovery and soul-searching that celebrates the abiding miracle of the book and the power of reading.
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- Title The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
- Author Andy Miller
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2014-12-09
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780061446184 / 0061446181
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Self-Esteem
- Library of Congress subjects Books and reading, Reading interests
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014014076
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal, 12/01/2014, Page 104
- Publishers Weekly, 08/25/2014, Page 0
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