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Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
Michael Dirda
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Description for Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
paperback. "For some time now, the best book critic in America has been Michael Dirda."-Michael M. Thomas, New York Observer Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher to a meeting of the P. G. Wodehouse Society, from an obsession with Nabokov's Lolita to the discovery of the Japanese epic The Tale of Genji, these essays chronicle a lifetime of literary enjoyment.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393324891
SKU
V9780393324891
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99-4
About Michael Dirda
Michael Dirda, who won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism at the Washington Post Book World, is the author of An Open Book, Bound to Please, and Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Reviews for Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
"Michael Dirda may be as close to the ideal as we are likely to get."
Annie Proulx "Michael Dirda is a superb literary essayist, and Readings should provide deep delight for discerning readers."
Harold Bloom
Annie Proulx "Michael Dirda is a superb literary essayist, and Readings should provide deep delight for discerning readers."
Harold Bloom