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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Phyllis Rose; Phyllis Rose |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Phyllis Rose |
ISBN: | 9780374261207 0374261202 9780374535360 0374535361 |
OCLC Number: | 864808485 |
Description: | 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | The experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time" -- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera" -- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman -- Women and fiction : a question of privilege -- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark -- Libraries : making space -- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas" -- Serial killers : detective fiction -- Immortality. |
Responsibility: | Phyllis Rose. |
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Abstract:
Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? The author 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.
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- Rose, Phyllis, -- 1942- -- Books and reading.
- New York Society Library.
- Books and reading -- United States.
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
- Reading interests -- United States.
- Fiction -- History and criticism.
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
- Rose, Phyllis, -- 1942-
- Authors, American -- Books and reading.
- Books and reading.
- Fiction.
- Reading interests.
- United States.
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