Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

by Peter Orner

Book Overview

This National Book Critics Circle Award is "an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times).

"Stories, both my own and those I've taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I've become," Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936787253
• ISBN13: 9781936787258
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

One of my favorites- a overview of the author's favorite books

It re-invigorated my love of reading and because he pulls the books through episodes of his own life and pieces of the authors' lives, the pages become very personal and intimate. My favorite if the Orner books I've read.