Bibliograph

Leave me alone, I'm reading, finding and losing myself in books, Maureen Corrigan

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Leave me alone, I'm reading, finding and losing myself in books, Maureen Corrigan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-201)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leave me alone, I'm reading

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

79620058

Responsibility statement

Maureen Corrigan

Sub title

finding and losing myself in books

Summary

In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR<U+2019>s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life<U+2014>from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan<U+2019>s love for a good story shines

Table Of Contents

Ain't no mountain high enough: women's extreme-adventure stories (and one of my own) -- Tales of toil: what John Ruskin and Sam Spade taught me about working for a living -- "They're writing songs of love, but not for me": Gaudy night and other alternatives to the traditional "mating, dating, and procreating" plot -- Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition: what Catholic martyr stories taught me about getting to heaven--and getting even -- Epilogue. My New York: September 8, 2001

Target audience

adult

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