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Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering
Contributor(s): Lesser, Wendy (Author)

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 ISBN: 0618340815     ISBN-13: 9780618340811
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE: $15.15  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2003
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Annotation: Revisiting her favorite books after 20 or 30 years, Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds--in the books, in herself, and in the wider world.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | Letters
Dewey: 028.9
LCCN: 2001051622
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.42" W x 8.19" L (0.53 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Review Citations: New York Times 06/08/2003 pg. 28
 
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Publisher Description:
From the esteemed cultural critic and journalist Wendy Lesser, Nothing Remains the Same is a bibliophile's dream: a book about the pleasures and surprises of rereading, a witty, intelligent exploration of what books can mean to our lives. Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal -- it involves the interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor, humor, and grace, Lesser takes us on a guided tour of her own return to books she once knew, from the plays of Shakespeare to twentieth-century novels by Kingsley Amis and Ian McEwan, from the childhood favorite I Capture the Castle to classic novels such as Anna Karenina and Huckleberry Finn, from nonfiction by Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth. Lesser conveys an infectious love of reading and inspires us all to take another look at the books we've read to find the unexpected treasures they might offer.

Contributor Bio(s): Lesser, Wendy: - Wendy Lesser is the author of His Other Half: Men Looking at Women through Art; Pictures at an Execution; A Director Calls (Faber and Faber, UK, 97), a biography of Stephen Daldry; and The Amateur, an intellectual biography exploring the intersection of art and experience (Pantheon, 99). A winner of the Pen/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing in 1997, Lesser was also editor of Hiding in Plain Sight: Essays in Criticism and Autobiography.
 
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