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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rose, Phyllis, 1942-     Subjects     Rose, Phyllis, 1942- -- Books and reading.     New York Society Library.     Books and reading -- United States.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.     Reading interests -- United States.     Fiction -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rose, Phyllis, 1942-       by title:      The shelf : from LEQ...         MARC Display

The shelf : from LEQ to LES / Phyllis Rose. by Rose, Phyllis, 1942- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2014. Subjects Rose, Phyllis, 1942- -- Books and reading.   New York Society Library.   Books and reading -- United States.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.   Reading interests -- United States.   Fiction -- History and criticism. Electronic Resource http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/207/9780374261207/image/lgcover.9780374261207.jpg ISBN:  9780374261207 : 0374261202 Description:  271 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time" -- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera" -- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman -- Women and fiction : a question of privilege -- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark -- Libraries : making space -- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas" -- Serial killers : detective fiction -- Immortality. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could wish for--a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels abut a picaresque novel from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf--those texts that accompany us through life. 'Fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels,' she sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 028.9 Ro Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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