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A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by Tom Nissley; Joanna Neborsky (Illustrator)


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At once a love letter to literature and a charming guide to the books most worth reading, A Reader's Book of Days features bite-size accounts of events in the lives of great authors for every day of the year. Here is Marcel Proust starting In Search of Lost Time and Virginia Woolf scribbling in the margin of her own writing, Is it nonsense, or is it brilliance? Fictional events that take place within beloved books are also included: the birth of Harry Potter's enemy Draco Malfoy, the blood-soaked prom in Stephen King's Carrie.

A Reader's Book of Days is filled with memorable and surprising tales from the lives and works of Martin Amis, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Roberto Bolano, the Bront sisters, Junot Daz, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens, Joan Didion, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Keats, Hilary Mantel, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O'Connor, Orhan Pamuk, George Plimpton, Marilynne Robinson, W. G. Sebald, Dr. Seuss, Zadie Smith, Susan Sontag, Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, David Foster Wallace, and many more. The book also notes the days on which famous authors were born and died; it includes lists of recommended reading for every month of the year as well as snippets from book reviews as they appeared across literary history; and throughout there are wry illustrations by acclaimed artist Joanna Neborsky.

Brimming with nearly 2,000 stories, A Reader's Book of Days will have readers of every stripe reaching for their favorite books and discovering new ones.

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  • Title A Reader's Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year
  • Author Tom Nissley; Joanna Neborsky (Illustrator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 2013-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393239621 / 0393239624
  • Weight 1.8 lbs (0.82 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.66 x 6.38 x 1.5 in (24.54 x 16.21 x 3.81 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism, Books and reading
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013031250
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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Citations

  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2013, Page 96
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/09/2013, Page 0
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