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Ex Libris
Confessions of a Common Reader
by Anne Fadiman
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Entertaining essays by Anne Fadiman about the joys of books and reading. Some of the joys are rather curious ones, but Fadiman writes about them with humor and self-deprecation, and always with grace and style.
Available editions of Ex Libris
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9780374148607,
Hardcover,
Farrar Straus & Giroux,
1998
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9780374527228,
Paperback,
Farrar Straus & Giroux,
2000
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Publisher Notes
This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Anne Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in he 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....Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, EX LIBRIS establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.
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"A terribly entertaining collection of personal essays about books, reading, language, and the endearing pathologies of those who love books."
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