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At Large and at Small : Confessions of a Literary Hedonistby Anne FadimanISBN 1846140439 (1-84614-043-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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At Large and At Small: Familiar Essaysby Anne FadimanISBN 0374531315 (0-374-53131-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays'Book summary:[via]In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essaya beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country.
Many of these essays were composed under the influence of the subject at hand. Fadiman ingests a shocking amount of ice cream and divulges her passion for Häagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brothers homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlúa Coffee (recipe included); she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzacs coffee addiction; and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her fathers nocturnal word games and Lewis Carrolls mathematical puzzles. At Large and At Small is a brilliant and delightful collection of essays that harkens a revival of a long-cherished genre.More editions of At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays:
Best American Essaysby Anne FadimanISBN 1417717297 (1-4177-1729-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Best American Essays 2003by Anne FadimanISBN 0618341617 (0-618-34161-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Essays 2003'Book summary:Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Sontag, Geoffrey C. Ward, Cynthia Ozick, and Stephen Jay Gould. This years volume is terrifically diverse, with subjects ranging from driving lessons to animal rights to citizenship in times of emergency.[via]More editions of The Best American Essays 2003:
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Readerby Anne FadimanISBN 0140283706 (0-14-028370-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader'Book summary:The subtitle of Anne Fadiman's slim collection of essays is Confessions of a Common Reader, but if there is one thing Fadiman is not, it's common. In her previous work of nonfiction, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, she brought both skill and empathy to her balanced exploration of clashing cultures and medical tragedy. The subject matter here is lighter, but imbued with the same fine prose and big heart. Ex Libris is an extended love letter to language and to the wonders it performs. Fadiman is a woman who loves words; in "The Joy of Sesquipedalians" (very long words), she describes an entire family besotted with them: "When I was growing up, not only did my family walk around spouting sesquipedalians, but we viewed all forms of intellectual competition as a sacrament, a kind of holy water as it were, to be slathered on at every opportunity." From very long words it's just a short jump to literature, and Fadiman speaks joyfully of books, book collecting, and book ownership ("In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar"). In "Marrying Libraries" Fadiman describes the emotionally fraught task of merging her collection with her husband's: "After five years of marriage and a child, George and I finally resolved that we were ready for the more profound intimacy of library consolidation. It was unclear, however, how we were to find a meeting point between his English-garden approach and my French-garden one." Perhaps some marriages could not have stood the strain of such an ordeal, but for this one, the merging of books becomes a metaphor for the solidity of their relationship.
Over the course of 18 charming essays Fadiman ranges from the "odd shelf" ("a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection reveals a good deal about its owner") to plagiarism ("the more I've read about plagiarism, the more I've come to think that literature is one big recycling bin") to the pleasures of reading aloud ("When you read silently, only the writer performs. When you read aloud, the performance is collaborative"). Fadiman delivers these essays with the expectation that her readers will love and appreciate good books and the power of language as much as she does. Indeed, reading Ex Libris is likely to bring up warm memories of old favorites and a powerful urge to revisit one's own "odd shelf" pronto. --Alix Wilber [via]
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- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader: ISBN 0374527229 (0-374-52722-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader: ISBN 0374148600 (0-374-14860-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader: ISBN 0713993154 (0-7139-9315-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader: ISBN 0140283706 (0-14-028370-6)
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- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader: ISBN 0374527229 (0-374-52722-9)
Rereadingsby Anne FadimanISBN 0374530548 (0-374-53054-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rereadings'Book summary:Is 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.[via]
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (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 Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse. 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.)
These 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.
Sociology of Health And Illness 7e + Spirit Catches Youby Peter Conrad, Anne FadimanISBN 0716768267 (0-7167-6826-7)
Softcover, Worth Pub
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Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctorsby Anne FadimanISBN 1417662999 (1-4176-6299-9)
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Culturesby Anne FadimanISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures'Book summary:Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epilepsy. By 1988 she was living at home but was brain dead after a tragic cycle of misunderstanding, overmedication, and culture clash: "What the doctors viewed as clinical efficiency the Hmong viewed as frosty arrogance." The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, written with the deepest of human feeling. Sherwin Nuland said of the account, "There are no villains in Fadiman's tale, just as there are no heroes. People are presented as she saw them, in their humility and their frailty--and their nobility." [via]
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- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures: ISBN 0374975809 (0-374-97580-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures: ISBN 0374267812 (0-374-26781-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures: ISBN 0374525641 (0-374-52564-1)
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- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures: ISBN 0374975809 (0-374-97580-9)
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Ex Librisby Anne FadimanISBN 3865550231 (3-86555-023-1)
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Ex-Libris. Confessions D'una Lectoraby Anne Fadiman , Carlota TorrensISBN 8476027265 (84-7602-726-5)
Hardcover, Eumo Editorial
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