Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

by Nina Sankovitch

Book Overview

"Nina Sankovitch has crafted a dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature--to heal, to nurture and to connectus to our truest selves. --Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between Us

Catalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. In the tradition of Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project and Joan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061999857
• ISBN13: 9780061999857
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"