Tim Parks

Broschiertes Buch

Where I'm Reading From

The Changing World of Books

Beschreibung

Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? This collection of provocative pieces tells what readers want from books and how to look at the literature we encounter in a new light.

Autor

Born in Manchester, Tim Parks grew up in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. In 1981 he moved to Italy where he has lived ever since.

He is the acclaimed author of novels, non-fiction and essays, including Europa, Cleaver , A Season with Verona, Teach Us to Sit Still and Italian Ways. He has won the Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask and Llewellyn Rhys awards, and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He lectures on literary translation in Milan, writes for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books , and his many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Calvino, Calasso, Tabucchi and Machiavelli.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 719135
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 197g
• ISBN-13: 9781784701796
• ISBN-10: 1784701793
• Artikelnr.: 43731444

Rezensionen

A book about reading that only makes you want to read more and a book about writing that needs to be read Tim Adams Observer