Judging a Book by Its Lover: A Field Guide to the Hearts and Minds of Readers Everywhere
of Lauren Leto
Description
Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on Infinite Jest? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you whoâs pontificating on Cormac McCarthyâs ârecurring road narrativesâ? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?For all those overwhelmed readers who need to get a firm grip on the relentless onslaught of must-read books to stay on top of the inevitable conversations that swirl around them, Lauren Letoâs Judging a Book by Its Lover is manna from literary heaven! A hilarious send-up ofâand inspired homage toâthe passionate and peculiar world of book culture, this guide to literary debate leaves no reader or author unscathed, at once adoring and skewering everyone from Jonathan Franzen to Ayn Rand to Dostoyevsky and the people who read them.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date October 2nd 2012
- First Publication 10/30/12
- Language English
- ISBN 9780062070142
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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