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Title: THE READER
By: Ali Smith
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1845293118
ISBN 13: 9781845293116
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 14 September, 2006
Pages: 416
Description: Is there any better gift for a writer than the chance to put a book together of writing by others that she or he has loved? Is there any truer gift to a reader from any writer? This book presents a collection of what the author has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child.
Synopsis: 'Is there any better gift for a writer than the chance to put a book together of writing by others that she or he has loved? Is there any truer gift to a reader from any writer?' - Ali Smith. This is a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child. This is a book full of pieces not only from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, and Atwood - but also full of lesser known writers about which readers will be very happy to hear, like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper reputation status now, Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian genius who's far too underpublished here, like Leonora Carrington, the socialite who ran away to be a surrealist, and Armando, the artist whose writings are beautiful and lucid. This is also a book full of pieces by brand new wonderful writers; full of surprises, like how good Lee Miller was at journalism, how beautifully Dilys Powell writes about Greece; and, full of unexpected things - turning the page to find the lyric of "It's only a Paper Moon", or "Beryl the Peril", or "The Little House on the Prairie".Throughout, each piece is edited so as to read discretely, and arranged into a book which will reveal more about the writer who's edited it than a hundred press interviews ever would. This book is a classic about the sheer love of reading that every real reader knows.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Constable
Returns: Returnable
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