The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir

by Frye Gaillard

Frye Gaillard's first encounters with books were disappointing. As a child he never cared much for fairy tales - "stories of cannibalism and mayhem in which giants and witches, tigers and wolves did their best to eat small children." But at the age of nine, he discovered Johnny Tremain, a children's novel of the Revolutionary War, which began a lifetime love affair with books, recounted here as a reader's tribute to the writings that enriched and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588382877
• ISBN13: 9781588382870
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.0"