{"product_id":"rereadings-9780374530549","title":"Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe editor of \u003ci\u003eRereadings \u003c\/i\u003eis Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book \u003ci\u003eEx Libris \u003c\/i\u003ewill find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eSue Barton, Student Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. \u003ci\u003eRereadings \u003c\/i\u003ereveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Fadiman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Catches You\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou Fall Down\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, an\u003ci\u003e L.A. Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize, and a Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, \u003ci\u003eAt Large and At Small\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491697365266,"sku":"9780374530549","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a4447ec7-51f6-4356-998a-237bc7f7c049.jpg?v=1730550349","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rereadings-9780374530549","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}