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A Love of Reading by Robert Adams

Finalist for The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in 2003

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Fourteen new reviews from the author of ‘A Love of Reading’. ‘A Love of Reading, the Second Collection’ contains 14 new reviews of modern classics, ranging from Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ to Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth’, and from Charles Frazier’s ‘Cold Mountain’ to Sheri Holman’s ‘The Dress Lodger’. Adams, a popular literary critic, interweaves a discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with historical, biographical, and literary context. The Calgary Herald described the collection as “a bibliophile’s dream.”

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The Second Collection: More Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

English

Non-Fiction

book reviews

2003

0-7710-0662-4

McClelland & Stewart

Toronto

2003

272

hardcover