{"product_id":"ex-libris-confessions-of-a-common-reader-paperback","title":"Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Fadiman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfectly balanced between humor and erudition, \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Anne Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Fadiman \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir about her father (FSG, 2017). Her first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 1997), won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Salon Book Award. Fadiman has also written the essay collections, \u003ci\u003eAt Large and At Small\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by FSG). She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 7.62 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755632066848,"sku":"9780374527228","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fcf951007c7b558ab53d3e1c063de44c.webp?v=1780064191","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ex-libris-confessions-of-a-common-reader-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}