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Patterson, Ian

 
9781474618984: Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library
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ISBN 10: 1474618987 ISBN 13: 9781474618984
Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025

Sinopsis

'A magnificent achievement . . . Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY
'I simply adored this book' JILLY COOPER
'Will send you rushing back to your bookshelves' DAVID NICHOLLS
'A pleasure' DEBORAH LEVY

This is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the strange, enduring magic of books as objects.

Ever since childhood, books have been at the centre of Ian Patterson's life, as a poet, teacher, translator, bookseller and collector. As he constructs the last of many libraries, he makes an impassioned case for the radical importance of reading in our lives - from Proust to Jilly Cooper, from golden-age detective novels to avant-garde poetry.

Wise, irreverent and exhilaratingly wide-ranging, Books: A Manifesto reminds us that poems know things that we might not yet know ourselves, urges us to seek out the puzzles alive in the art of translation and celebrates the singular elasticity of the 'bookshop minute'. But even more than this, the book insists on reading not as a luxury but a necessary part of reality: we live within language, and when we think, it's with the tools that reading gives us.

Our time of cultural and political crisis demands more than books - but without them, and without the breadth of knowledge, sense of history, awareness of alternatives and hope for the future they offer, things will not get better. At once a primer for enriching your own library and a manifesto for why that matters, this book is an invitation to a deeper, richer world of thought and feeling - and a reminder of just how much books matter.

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Acerca del autor

Ian Patterson is a widely published poet and translator, and a former academic. The translator of Finding Time Again, the final volume of the Penguin Proust, he is also the author of Guernica and Total War and Nemo's Almanac. He won the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2017, with an elegy for his late wife, Jenny Diski. He worked in Further Education between 1970 and 1984, had a second-hand bookselling business for ten years after that, and from 1995 until 2018 was an academic, teaching English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Many of his students have gone on to shape the world of publishing and writing, both in the UK and the US.

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Editorial
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Año de publicación
2025
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1474618987
ISBN 13 
9781474618984
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
Hachette UK
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