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The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age

by Robert Alter

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9780671627836
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Simon & Schuster, May 1989. Hardcover. Good/Good.

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On May 17 2021, a reader said:
Robert Alter is highly intelligent, learned, and Scholarly. This book is very informative yet challenging (i.e., difficult at times) but well worth reading.

I love his ending which goes :

Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structured common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read; and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.

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Dunaway Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
122549
Title
The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age
Author
Robert Alter
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
067162783X
ISBN 13
9780671627836
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
May 1989
Pages
250

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