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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives - Taylor, Helen
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Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as parents, teachers, and librarians--the glue for a literate society. Women treasure the chance to read alone, but have also gregariously shared reading experiences and memories with mothers, daughters, grandchildren, and female friends. For so many, reading ...

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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2022, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198827696

Paperback

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198827689

Hardcover