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Paperback: 9781596915435, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00; and 9781551929620, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95
CD/Spoken Word: 9781433207983, Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $19.95
Paperback: 9781596915435, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00; and 9781551929620, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95
Cassette/Spoken Word: 9781433207976, Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $19.95
Hardcover: 9781596914698, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2007, cover price $19.95
Paperback: 9781596915435, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00; and 9781551929620, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95
Miscellaneous: 9781433207990, Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $29.95
Paperback: 9781596915435, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00; and 9781551929620, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95
How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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Product Description: In this mischievous book, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the book's place in our culture. Using examples from works by Graham Greene, Umberto Eco, and others (and even the movie Groundhog Day), Bayard examines the many kinds of "non-reading" (forgotten books, books discussed by others, books we've skimmed briefly) and the many potentially nightmarish situations in which we are called upon to discuss our reading with others. At heart, this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book challenges everyone who's ever felt guilty about missing some of the great books to consider what reading means, how we absorb books as part of ourselves, and why we spend so much time talking about what we have, or haven't, read.
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