
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Wendy Lesser(Author)
Houghton Mifflin (Publisher)
Published on 8. May 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-618-34081-1 (ISBN)
Description
Wendy Lesser's new book is 'an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both' (Lawrence Weschler). Revisiting her favorite books after the passage of twenty or thirty years, Lesser is stirred by the changes she finds-in the books, in herself, and in the wider world. If NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME is a book about reading, it is also a book about time, with rereading as a special form of time travel. From classic novels such as ANNA KARENINA and THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY to a charming tale for young adults called I CAPTURE THE CASTLE, from nonfiction by George Orwell and Henry Adams to poetry by Wordsworth and Milton, from the deeply American HUCKLEBERRY FINN to works in translation like DON QUIXOTE and THE IDIOT, Lesser covers the whole literary spectrum. NOTHING REMAINS THE SAME is a witty and humane exploration of what books can mean to our lives and vice versa, by a writer who 'has the gift of enabling a reader to grasp the deeper workings of art forms, both high and low, in the act of describing how they affect her' (James Shapiro, New York Times Book Review).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-618-34081-1 (9780618340811)
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WENDY LESSER, the founder and editor of The Threepenny Review, is the author of one novel and more than a dozen books of nonfiction. She has written about dance, music, film, television, and literature for The New York Times, The London Review of Books, and numerous other publications, both in the US and abroad. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Berlin, she presently divides her time between Berkeley, New York, and Berlin.