The Year of Reading Dangerously : How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life by Andy Miller 9780007255764

The Year of Reading Dangerously : How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life

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A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself. But, no matter how busy or tired he was, something kept niggling at him. Books. Books he'd always wanted to read. Books he'd said he'd read, when he hadn't. Books that whispered the promise of escape from the 6.44 to London. And so, with the turn of a page, began a year of reading that was to transform Andy's life completely. This book is Andy's inspirational and very funny account of his expedition through literature: classic, cult and everything in-between. Crack the spine of your unread `Middlemarch', discover what `The Da Vinci Code' and `Moby-Dick' have in common (everything, surprisingly) and knock yourself out with a new-found enthusiasm for Tolstoy, Douglas Adams and `The Epic of Gilgamesh'. `The Year of Reading Dangerously' is a reader's odyssey and it begins with opening this book.

Product Information:

Book ISBN: 9780007255764
Book Author: Andy Miller
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Book Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Book Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Dimensions: 195 x 115 x 26 cm
Book Publication Date: 2015-04-23
Book Pagination: 336 pages
Book Weight: 272g

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