Literature / Books about Books
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Ex Libris
Anne Fadiman: Confessions of a Common Reader
Penguin ISBN 9780140283709
Paperback
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Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice.
Ex Libris wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family.