Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Maureen Corrigan
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan’s love for a good story shines.
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Maureen Corrigan is the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, a lecturer at Georgetown University, and the author of the literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading! She lives in Washington, D.C.
عام:
2006
الإصدار:
1st
الناشر:
Vintage Books, Penguin Random House
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
240
ISBN 10:
0307431355
ISBN 13:
9780307431356
ملف:
EPUB, 317 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2006