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Judging a book by its lover, a field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere, Lauren Leto

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Judging a book by its lover, a field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere, Lauren Leto

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Judging a book by its lover

Oclc number

811728312

Responsibility statement

Lauren Leto

Sub title

a field guide to the hearts and minds of readers everywhere

Summary

"Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on Infinite Jest? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you who's pontificating on Cormac McCarthy's "recurring road narratives"? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight? For all those overwhelmed readers who need to get a firm grip on the relentless onslaught of must-read books to stay on top of the inevitable conversations that swirl around them, Lauren Leto's Judging a Book by Its Lover is manna from literary heaven! A hilarious send-up of--and inspired homage to--the passionate and peculiar world of book culture, this guide to literary debate leaves no reader or author unscathed, at once adoring and skewering everyone from Jonathan Franzen to Ayn Rand to Dostoyevsky and the people who read them"--P. [4] of cover

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