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

Parks, Tim

ISBN 10: 1846559030 / ISBN 13: 9781846559037

Published by Harvill Secker, London, 2014

About this Item

8vo, 244 pp. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Seller Inventory # 075468

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
• Publisher: Harvill Secker, London
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846559030
• ISBN 13: 9781846559037
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Essays

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Synopsis

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 writer, translator, critic and professor of literature, 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.

About the Author

Tim Parks has written seventeen novels, including Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and most recently, Painting Death. He is the author of several works of non-fiction, including Italian Neighbors and Italian Ways. Parks has also translated the works of Alberto Moravia, Giacomo Leopardi, and Niccolò Machiavelli, among others, and he is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He lives in Italy.