Description
This is a book of essays about books that have been reread multiple times. The editor, Anne Fadiman, selects seventeen authors to write about their favorite books. The authors range in genre from romance novels to non-fiction. The essays are about the different ways that the authors feel about the books after rereading them. Some of the authors talk about how the book has changed them, while others talk about the different relationships they have with the books.
Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.The editor of
Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book
Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from
Pride and Prejudice to
Sue Barton, Student Nurse.These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships.
Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.
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