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Reading For Fun

Reading For Fun

Essays
Pages
220
Published
2016
Language
English

Synopsis

Alison Lurie offers a delightful collection of essays exploring the joys and challenges of reading. She shares her insights on various literary works, authors, and the act of engaging with books. This volume invites readers to consider their own relationship with literature and discover new perspectives on beloved stories.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

InformativeReflectiveIntellectualThought-Provoking

Genres

Essays

About the author

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Alison Lurie

Alison Lurie is a Pulitzer Prize–winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Born in Chicago and raised in White Plains, New York, she joined the English department at Cornell University in 1970, where she taught courses on children’s literature, among others. Her first novel, Love and Friendship (1962), is a story of romance and deception among the faculty of a snowbound New England college. It won favorable reviews and established her as a keen observer of love in academia. It was followed by th...