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| Marginal notes on the inner lives of people with cluttered apartments in the east seventies : Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger | 3 | |
| Relics of Saint Katherine : the journal, letters, and stories of Katherine Mansfield | 19 | |
| Love's wound, love's salve : Pan, by Knut Hamsun | 35 | |
| Whitman's triumph : "Song of myself", by Walt Whitman | 49 | |
| Kid Roberts and me : The leather pushers, by H. C. Witwer | 63 | |
| My life with a field guide : A field guide to wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North America, by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny | 77 | |
| A companion of the prophet : Arthur Rimbaud, by Enid Starkie | 89 | |
| Three doctors' daughters : the Sue Barton books, by Helen Dore Boylston | 101 | |
| "You shall hear of me" : Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad | 115 | |
| Love with a capital L : The vagabond and The shackle, by Colette | 127 | |
| Stead made me do it : House of all nations, by Christina Stead | 137 | |
| Pemberley previsited : Pride and prejudice, by Jane Austen | 155 | |
| Lawrence by lightning : The virgin and the gypsy, by D. H. Lawrence | 165 | |
| The ice palace : "The snow queen," by Hans Christian Andersen | 181 | |
| Revisiting Brideshead : Brideshead revisited, by Evelyn Waugh | 195 | |
| The pursuit of worldliness : The charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal | 207 | |
| The back of the album : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by the Beatles | 223 |
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Harold Smith
reviewed Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love on July 05, 2007
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
An interesting conceit: at the invitation of the editor, the wonderful Anne Fadiman, seventeen writers revisit books they had read in their youth and describe the results.
Unfortunately, the results are mixed, at best. Perhaps one would need to have read all 17 books in question to derive full value from this book. But that seems a little much to expect. Overall, I think I was disappointed in how poorly some of the authors managed to convey the original passion they had felt for their particular choice. Predictably enough, the chapters that interested me most were those pertaining to books I had read, particularly those concerning books which had also spoken to me, upon first reading.
My favorite chapter - the one about Salinger's "Franny and Zooey", an alltime favorite from my college years. I was relieved that it held up under the author's re-reading, and - when moved to read it again myself - that it did for me as well.
It probably deserves more than 3 stars, but its overall spottiness prevents me from giving it 4. So let's leave it at 3.5 and take the opportunity to plug (yet again) Fadiman's far superior original collection of her own writing, "Ex Libris", in which there is not a single bad essay.
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