orion publishing co
Books - A Manifesto
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'A magnificent achievement . . . Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY 'I simply adored this book' JILLY COOPER 'Will send you rushing back to your bookshelves' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A pleasure' DEBORAH LEVY This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects. Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden-age detective novels to avant-garde poetry. Wise, irreverent and exhilaratingly wide-ranging, Books: A Manifesto reminds us that poems know things that we might not yet know ourselves, urges us to seek out the puzzles alive in the art of translation and celebrates the singular elasticity of the 'bookshop minute'. But even more than this, the book insists on reading not as a
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- orion publishing co
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- 9781474618984