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By: Rose, Phyllis
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Vintage: September 1984
Seller ID: 36410
ISBN: 0394725808
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
By: Rose, Phyllis
Price: $7.95
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 2015
Seller ID: 48649
ISBN: 0374535361
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Used - Good
Phyllis Rose, after a career of reading from syllabuses and writing about canonical books, decided to read like an explorer. She "wanted to sample, more democratically, the actual ground of literature." Casting herself into the untracked wilderness of the New York Society Library's stacks, she chose a shelf of fiction almost at random and read her way through it. Unsure of what she would find, she was nonetheless certain "that no one in the history of the world had read exactly this series of novels."
What results is a spirited experiment in "Off-Road or Extreme Reading." Rose's shelf of...
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