Reading for Life

by Philip Davis

Book Overview

Reading for Life is an anthology of poems and of extracts from prose fiction, related to a series of case-histories of individuals carefully reading, discussing their reading lives, and thinking about the relation of literature to their existence. It enables readers to gain increased imaginative access to the works in question through seeing how they have intensely affected equivalent readers--a novelist, a poet, a doctor, a teacher, an anthologist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192871374
• ISBN13: 9780192871374
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"