Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
of Nina Sankovitch (Goodreads Author)
Description
After the death of her sister, Nina Sankovitch found herself caught up in grief, dashing from one activity to the next to keep her mind occupied. But on her forty-sixth birthday she decided to stop running and start reading.Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project and Joan Dideon's A Year of Magical Thinking, Nina Sankovitch's soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss,hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 241 pages
- Publisher Harper
- Publication Date June 7th 2011
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780061999840
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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