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AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.

AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.

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AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.

by Orner, Peter

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New York:: Catapult,, (2016). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps. . First printing, a trade paperback original. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. A collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds - in a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, the Lizzie Borden story in Fall River or a crowded bus in Haiti. Among the many writers he discusses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and more. SIGNED on the title page. Author and title index. 316 pp.

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Title
AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.
Author
Orner, Peter
Format/Binding
SIGNED first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
1936787253
ISBN 13
9781936787258
Publisher
Catapult,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
(2016)
Keywords
lizzie bordon, haiti, bus in Haiti. Isaac Babel, Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman
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