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An Open Book: Chapters from a Reader's Life
An Open Book Chapters from a Reader's Life Author:Michael Dirda "A love story, full of a passion for literature and marked by intellectual vigor."Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles Times "All that kid wants to do is stick his nose in a book," Michael Dirda's steelworker father used to complain, worried about his son's passion for reading. In An Open Book, one of the most delightful me... more »moirs to emerge in years, the acclaimed literary journalist Michael Dirda re-creates his boyhood in rust-belt Ohio, first in the working-class town of Lorain, then at Oberlin College. In addition to his colorful family and friends, An Open Book also features the great writers and fictional characters who fueled Dirda's imagination: from Green Lantern to Sherlock Holmes, from Candy to Proust. The result is an affectionate homage to small-town Americasummer jobs, school fights, sweepstakes contests, and first datesas well as a paean to what could arguably be called the last great age of reading.« less