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Life & Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them
By Parks, Tim
- ISBN
- 9780300215366
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
Are fiction writers and readers influenced by their personal histories? Noted literary critic and author Parks (Europa) proposes that tensions among competing values provide a world in which book lovers discover and construct their own personalities. The first 17 essays focus on the biographical influences of generations of authors from Charles Dickens to Haruki Murakami. Novelists and playw...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
