Author: Anne Fadiman
Translator: Young-mok Jeong
Publisher: Jiho
223 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned
about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her
19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself
poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the
only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least
twice.
This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with
books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the
books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with
remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal
essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales
of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at
blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral
Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and
her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is
exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the
perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long
words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray
into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs
between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who
literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and
erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest
contemporary essayists.
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