Those who fear the novel is dead or dying can rest easy. Between the pages of this revelatory revenant--the art form revivified with heart, humor, and layered perception--is a bildungsroman of a book, literally. "Can a novel that anthropomorphizes language be a page-turner? Glenn Ingersoll's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK says, 'Yes!' And this reader agrees." --Eric Darton, author of Free City