A Reader on Reading
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780300159820 (030015982X)
ASIN: 030015982X
Publish date: March 2nd 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Alberto Manguel is the epitome of the erudite idealistic booklover. He ushers us into his library of ideas, knowing that his and our enjoyment of books, the reading, the collecting, the savouring, will be mutually enhanced by the sharing of ideas. He is one of those rare authors who make you feel ...
“We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything, in the landscape, in the skies, in the faces of others, and, of course, in the images and words that our species create”. So writes Alberto Manguel, in this fantastic, thought provoking joy of a book – A Reader on reading. He goes on...