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The Shelf (Paperback)
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The Shelf (Paperback)
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List price R450
Loot Price R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
You Save R28 (6%)
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Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts
herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an
effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of
literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen
shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose
could wish for - a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety
of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth
century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is
spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of
French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic
Austrians. California detective novels about a picaresque novel
from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a
wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising
dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose
investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and
wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and
measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf - those texts
that accompany us through life. "Fairly sure that no one in the
history of the world has read exactly this series of novels," she
sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly
original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise.
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