![]() ![]() ![]() As an essayist and journalist, Fadiman has won the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award but here the essays focus a lot more on the domestic and - for many readers like her - the familiar. Fadiman manages to take us into her married life, her childhood and her family - all of them entwined with her love for books and reading. The eighteen short essays that make up this collection are not just entertaining diversions for bibliophiles but something closer to a confessional by the author. Posted on Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman ![]()
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