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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Is a book the same book---or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The 17 authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Is a book the same book--or a reader the same reader--the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. <p/>The editor of <i>Rereadings </i>is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book <i>Ex Libris </i>will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from <i>Pride and Prejudice </i>to <i>Sue Barton, Student Nurse</i>. <p/>These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. <i>Rereadings </i>reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An absolute delight for those of us who live to read (and reread) . . . Fadiman has done such a fine job of selecting and arranging these pieces that they become a kind of composite literary coming-of-age memoir from the geeky, horny adolescent madly thumbing <i>Franny and Zooey</i> or <i>Lord Jim</i> in some shag-carpeted suburban basement bedroom to the sadder but wiser critic, novelist, poet who gazes wistfully at the ghost of a younger self rising from the pages of a once-loved book." --<i>David Laskin, The Seattle Times</i> <p/>"A delightful glimpse into the relationship between reader and book." --<i>Teresa K. Weaver, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> <p/>"f you're a fan of Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris--and who among right-thinking people isn't?--then your heart will skip a beat over her new anthology, Rereadings . . . thoroughly enjoyable essays" --<i>Claire Dederer, Newsday</i> <p/>"A deep and wonderfully complex story about relationships . . . Anne Fadiman's diverse collection of essays encourages readers to rethink the way we see our favorite books and ultimately the way we see ourselves through them." --<i>Jill Marr, Pages</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Anne Fadiman</b> is the author of <i>The Spirit Catches You</i> and <i>You Fall Down</i>, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, an<i> L.A. Times</i> Book Prize, and a Salon Book Award. She is also the author of two essay collections, <i>At Large and At Small</i> and <i>Ex Libris</i>. Her essays and articles have appeared in <i>Harper's, The New Yorker</i>, and <i>The New York Times</i>, among other publications. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.</p>

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