The Child that Books Built: 'A memoir about how and why we read as children.' NICK HORNBY - Softcover

Spufford, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571346790 ISBN 13: 9780571346790

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2018

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Exuberant and serious, funny and sophisticated, this memoir of reading and childhood is a delight. (Andrea Ashworth, author of Once in a House on Fire)

Short, dense, allusive and ferociously bright . . . A memoir about how, what and why we read as children. (Nick Hornby Guardian Books of the Year)

A beautifully composed and wholly original memoir, sounding the classics of children's literature, while examining the effect obsessive reading had on one bookish boy. (David Sexton Evening Standard)

Parents, non-parents, ex-children, anyone who reads or ever read children's books -- read this. It's a joy. (Irish Times)

Reseña del editor

What would you find if you went back and re-read your favourite books from childhood? In The Child That Books Built Francis Spufford revisits all those childhood obsessions: fairy tales; Where the Wild Things Are; The Lord of the Rings; The Chronicles of Narnia; Little House on the Prairie; The Wind in the Willows; The Earthsea Trilogy and more. In these treasured tales Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness - the thrill as worlds of imagination opened up before him mixed with the memories of a boy who retreated into books when faced with a family tragedy.

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0571346790
• ISBN 13: 9780571346790
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224