Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-Read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission Paperback - 2001
by Michael Ondaatje (Editor); Michael Redhill (Editor); Esta Spalding (Editor)
In this anthology compiled by the editors of "Brick: A Literary Journal", 74 distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost--overlooked, under-read, unavailable, stolen, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.
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Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of "Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics" is a reader's delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, "being lovers of books, we've pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory." Anyone who has ever been changed by a book will find kindred spirits in the pages of Lost Classics.
Each of the editors has contributed a lost book essay to this collection, including Michael Ondaatje on Sri Lankan filmmaker Tissa Abeysekara's Bringing Tony Home, a novella about a mutual era of childhood. Also included are Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Doctor Glas, first published in Sweden in 1905; Russell Banks on the off-beat travelogue Too Late to Turn Back by Barbara Greene-the "slightly ditzy" cousin of Graham; Bill Richardson on a children's book for adults by Russell Hoban; Ronald Wright on William Golding's Pincher Martin; Caryl Phillips on Michael Mac Liammoir's account of his experiences on the set of Orson Welles's Othello, and much, much more.
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- Title Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-Read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission
- Author Michael Ondaatje (Editor); Michael Redhill (Editor); Esta Spalding (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Anchor Books
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date August 21, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780385720861 / 0385720866
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.22 x 0.72 in (20.35 x 13.26 x 1.83 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Authors - Books and reading
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00053128
- Dewey Decimal Code 028.9
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- Booklist, 08/01/2001, Page 2075
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2001, Page 855
- Library Journal, 06/01/2001, Page 160
- Publishers Weekly, 06/11/2001, Page 77
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