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An Open Book - Chapters Fom a Reader's Life (Paperback)
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An Open Book - Chapters Fom a Reader's Life (Paperback)
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"All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael
Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his
son's passion for reading. In "An Open Book," one of the most
delightful memoirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary
journalist Michael Dirda re-creates his boyhood in rust-belt Ohio,
first in the working-class town of Lorain, then at Oberlin College.
In addition to his colorful family and friends, "An Open Book" also
features the great writers and fictional characters who fueled
Dirda's imagination: from Green Lantern to Sherlock Holmes, from
Candy to Proust. The result is an affectionate homage to small-town
America summer jobs, school fights, sweepstakes contests, and first
dates as well as a paean to what could arguably be called the last
great age of reading. "Dirda is a superb literary essayist." Harold
Bloom "Michael Dirda's memoir no surprise to me is so good that I
went up to the attic meaning to send him one of my antique Big
Little books as a salute to excellence...A great job. I'll be
buying "An Open Book" for my children and grandchildren." Russell
Baker, author of "Growing Up" "Here, in "An Open Book," is the show
and tell of a wonderful American story, everything coming together
in the immemorial dance of literature and memory, of history and
gossip, and of the deeply felt, bittersweet story (his own) of a
young life. Read it and rejoice." George Garrett "A lovely,
unapologetically nostalgic remembrance of growing up in a more
innocent America, but it is also the touching story of one person's
lifelong love affair with words." June Sawyer, "San Francisco
Chronicle" "Dirda inhabits each book he reads. Inhabits it and
makes a space alongside it for us to join him....He is a rare
treasure." James Sallis, "Boston Sunday Globe""
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