{"product_id":"reader-on-reading","title":"Reader on Reading","description":"An intimate and exhilarating journey through the world of books by the internationally celebrated author\nIn this major collection of his essays Alberto Manguel whom George Steiner has called \"the Casanova of reading \" argues that the activity of reading in its broadest sense defines our species. \"We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything \" writes Manguel \"landscape the skies the faces of others the images and words that our species create.\" Reading our own lives and those of others reading the societies we live in and those that lie beyond our borders reading the worlds that lie between the covers of a book are the essence of A Reader on Reading.\nThe thirty-nine essays in this volume explore the crafts of reading and writing the identity granted to us by literature the far-reaching shadow of Jorge Luis Borges to whom Manguel read as a young man and the links between politics and books and between books and our bodies. The powers of censorship and intellectual curiosity the art of translation and those \"numinous memory palaces we call libraries\" also figure in this remarkable collection. For Manguel and his readers words in spite of everything lend coherence to the world and offer us \"a few safe places as real as paper and as bracing as ink \" to grant us room and board in our passage.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0300172087\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0300172087.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Manguel, Alberto\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41446877134906,"sku":"DBV.0300172087.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0300172087-0.jpg?v=1780711152","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/reader-on-reading","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}