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AM I ALONE HERE? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live.
by Orner, Peter
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
- ISBN 10
- 1936787253
- ISBN 13
- 9781936787258
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About This Item
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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- 86047
- 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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- Essays;
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