{"product_id":"9781429930864","title":"Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love","description":"\u003cp\u003eIs a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe editor of \u003ci\u003eRereadings\u003c\/i\u003e is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book \u003ci\u003eEx Libris\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1998) will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eSue Barton, Student Nurse\u003c\/i\u003e. Each has selected a book or a story or a poem--or even, in one case, the lyrics on the back of the Sgt. Pepper album--that made a deep impression in his or her youth, and reread it to see how it has changed in the interim. (Of course, what has really changed is the reader.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. The relationship between reader and book is a powerful one, and as these writers attest, it evolves over time. Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122514542832,"sku":"9781429930864","price":9.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429930864_p0.jpg?v=1763747629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429930864","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}