The beloved author of "Up the Sandbox" reflects on her love affairs with the great male characters of American fiction in a celebration of the joys of reading that is also a delightful social history of the last five years.
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The beloved author of "Up the Sandbox" reflects on her love affairs with the great male characters of American fiction in a celebration of the joys of reading that is also a delightful social history of the last five years.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0743205057. Tight unmarked book, still stiff to open, in dust jacket with 1 cm corner tear.; 8.80 X 5.80 X 1 inches; 256 pages.
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New. New Ships From Canada Sewn binding Cloth over boards 240 p Audience: General/trade Book Description: What does it mean to love a character in a book? Many of us do Many of us always have These loves are not the subject of late-night phone conversations with friends or entries in our secret diaries Yet, as Anne Roiphe reveals in her stunning new book, the characters we know only in fiction live forever in our hearts and our minds We are what we read In For Rabbit, with Love and Squalor, Roiphe takes us on a glorious tour of the relationships she has had with the great male characters of American fiction: Holden Caulfield, Robert Jordan, Dick Diver, Rabbit, Nathan Zuckerman, Frank Bascombe, and Max and Mickey In her literary love life Roiphe is a serial monogamist When she is involved with one character, she is exclusively his until another comes along She is an audience, an imaginary lover, and a critic, too--but a critic only in the way a relative carps or chides at the escap.
