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The book that changed my life : 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them
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The book that changed my life : 71 remarkable writers celebrate the books that matter most to them

Auteur : Roxanne J Coady; Joy Johannessen
Éditeur : New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, ©2006.
Édition/format :  Livre : AnglaisVoir toutes les éditions et les formats
Résumé :
Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.".
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Format physique additionnel : Online version:
Book that changed my life.
New York, N.Y. : Gotham Books, c2006
(OCoLC)623427761
Type d’ouvrage : Ressource Internet
Format : Livre, Ressource Internet
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : Roxanne J Coady; Joy Johannessen
ISBN : 1592402100 9781592402106
Numéro OCLC : 70707739
Description : xvii, 197 p. ; 20 cm.
Contenu : Introduction / Roxanne J. Coady --
Dorothy Allison on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye --
Kate Atkinson on Robert Coover's Pricksongs and Descants --
James Atlas on Gwendolyn Brooks's Selected Poems --
Robert Ballard on Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth --
Gina Barreca on Jean Kerr's The Snake Has All the Lines --
Nicholas A. Basbanes on the Works of Shakespeare --
Graeme Base on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings --
Jeff Benedict on The Little Engine That Could --
Elizabeth Berg on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye --
Amy Bloom on The Most of P.G. Wodehouse --
Harold Bloom on John Crowley's Little, Big --
Lary Bloom on John Hersey's Hiroshima --
Chris Bohjalian on Joyce Carol Oates's Expensive People and More --
Steven Brill on Theodore H. White's The Making of the President, 1960 --
Benjamin Cheever on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death --
Da Chen on Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo --
Harriet Scott Chessman on Gertrude Stein's Ida --
Brother Christopher on Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain --
Carol Higgins Clark on Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger Is Watching --
Billy Collins on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita --
Claire Cook on Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew Mysteries --
Caroline B. Cooney on Caesar's Gallic Wars --
Patricia Cornwell on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin --
Maureen Corrigan on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield --
Nelson DeMille on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and More --
Tomie dePaola on Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter --
Anita Diamant on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own --
Dominick Dunne on Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now --
Carlos Eire on Thomas á Kempis's The Imitation of Christ --
Linda Fairstein on Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes --
Doris Kearns Goodwin on Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August --
Linda Greenlaw on Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm --
David Halberstam on Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why --
Alice Hoffman on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye --
Sebastian Junger on Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee --
Paul Kennedy on Geoffrey Barraclough's An Introduction to Contemporary History --
Tracy Kidder on Ernest Hemingway's Collected Stories --
Robert Kurson on Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death --
Wally Lamb on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird --
Anne Lamott on Ram Dass's The Only Dance There Is and More --
Barbara Leaming on Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams --
Senator Joe Lieberman on the Bible --
Margot Livesey on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre --
Senator John McCain on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls --
Frank McCourt on William Shakespeare's Henry VIII --
Faith Middleton on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby --
Jacquelyn Mitchard on Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn --
Leigh Montville on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct Series --
Sara Nelson on Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar and Susan Isaacs's Compromising Positions --
Sherwin B. Nuland on William Lewis Nida's Ab the Cave Man --
Laura Numeroff on Kay Thompson's Eloise --
Stewart O'Nan on William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow --
Jacques Pépin on Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus --
Anne Perry on G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday --
Jack Prelutsky on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and More --
Ian Rankin on Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange --
Richard Rhodes on Albert Schweitzer's Out of My Life and Thought and Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle Series --
Frank Rich on Moss Hart's Act One --
SARK on Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings --
Lisa Scottoline on Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes --
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., on William Saroyan's The Human Comedy --
Liz Smith on Christopher Morley's Kitty Foyle and Guy Endore's Voltaire! Voltaire! --
Edward Sorel on Stendhal's The Red and the Black --
Jane Stern on John Barth's The End of the Road --
Michael Stern on the Sears Catalogue --
Alexandra Stoddard on Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet --
Paco Underhill on C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower Series --
Susan Vreeland on Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird --
Kate Walbert on E.B. White's Charlotte's Web --
Katharine Weber on Steven Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse --
Jacqueline Winspear on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby --
The Books That Changed Their Lives : A Reading List of the Books Selected by the Contributors --
Editors' Note --
Roxanne's Very Opinionated Reading List --
Joy's Very Opinionated Reading List --
About Read to Grow --
Acknowledgments --
About the Editors.
Responsabilité : edited by Roxanne J. Coady and Joy Johannessen.
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Résumé :

Sixty-five concise and lively essays by some of today's most successful writers identify the books that proved pivotal to the shaping of their careers, in a volume that includes Harold Bloom on "Little, Big," Nelson DeMille on "Atlas Shrugged," and Sebastian Junger on "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.".

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A great book for many different reasons

de jennims (Utilisateur de WorldCat. Publication 2007-11-28) Très bon Permalien
This was a great book for anyone that is interested in what authors read or want to add to their list of books to read. Each writer writes a short piece on a book that chaged their life and why. I found it very interesting that most of the books they chose were ones that they read when they were between...
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