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Where I'm Reading From Tim Parks

Where I'm Reading From By Tim Parks

Where I'm Reading From by Tim Parks


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Summary

Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? This bock deals with these questions.

Where I'm Reading From Summary

Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks

Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you read a good book? As a novelist, translator and critic, Tim Parks is well-placed to investigate any questions we have about books and reading. In this collection of lively and provocative pieces he talks about what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light. These pieces were originally published as columns in the New York Review of Books.

Where I'm Reading From Reviews

"A book about reading that only makes you want to read more and a book about writing that needs to be read" -- Tim Adams Observer "Long overdue, challenging and absorbing" -- Alan Taylor Herald "This book will make you think about what and how you read" -- Bridie Pritchard UK Press Syndication "Insightful, provocative, funny and frightening, this wry, fast-paced and passionate series of essays encourages us to re-evaluate our perception of reading and books" Good Book Guide "I love Tim Parks." -- William Leith Evening Standard

About Tim Parks

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He lives in Milan. He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver, A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the John Florio Prize and the Italo Calvino Prize.

Additional information

GOR006371752
9781846559037
1846559030
Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
2014-11-03
256
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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