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Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

Door Leah Price

Categorie
Boekdrukkunst & Boeken
Boeknummer
#383681-WE8
Titel
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
Auteur
Price, Leah (editor)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2011
ISBN10
0300170920
ISBN13
9780300170924
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered decorated pictorial boards, illustrated with numerous (double page) photographs in colour, oblong (circa 15x21cm).
Samenvatting
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions. In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation o... (Lees verder)f writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.
Pagina's
201
Conditie
Goed — Name on verso half title.
Prijs
€ 8,00

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