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  • ISBN: 9780374261207
  • ISBN: 0374261202
  • Physical Description: 271 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages ... Read More
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The experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A ... Read More
Summary, etc.:
"Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary ... Read More
Subject: Rose, Phyllis, 1942- > Books and reading.
Books and reading > United States.
Authors, American > 20th century > Books and reading.
Reading interests > United States.
Fiction > History and criticism.
New York Society Library.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
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1001 . ‡aRose, Phyllis, ‡d1942- ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)1453
24514. ‡aThe shelf : ‡bfrom LEQ to LES / ‡cPhyllis Rose.
250 . ‡aFirst edition.
260 . ‡aNew York : ‡bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, ‡c2014.
300 . ‡a271 pages ; ‡c22 cm
336 . ‡atext ‡2rdacontent
337 . ‡aunmediated ‡2rdamedia
338 . ‡avolume ‡2rdacarrier
520 . ‡a"Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could wish for--a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels abut a picaresque novel from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf--those texts that accompany us through life. 'Fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels,' she sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
5050 . ‡aThe experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time" -- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera" -- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman -- Women and fiction : a question of privilege -- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark -- Libraries : making space -- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas" -- Serial killers : detective fiction -- Immortality.
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650 0. ‡aAuthors, American ‡y20th century ‡xBooks and reading.
650 0. ‡aReading interests ‡zUnited States. ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)174589
650 0. ‡aFiction ‡xHistory and criticism. ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)20148
61020. ‡aNew York Society Library.
650 7. ‡aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. ‡2bisacsh
948 . ‡hNO HOLDINGS IN LAL - 307 OTHER HOLDINGS
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