My life in seventeen books: a literary memoir
Jon M. Sweeney
- Resource Type:
- E-Book
- Publication:
- Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, [2024]
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- Summary:
- "A memoir for the bookish-inclined, using personal stories to demonstrate how books have a magical way to move a person from one stage of life to the next. Former bookseller, longtime publisher and author Jon M. Sweeney shows-with history and anecdotes centering around books such as Thoreau's Journal, Tagore's Gitanjali, Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales, and Tolstoy's Twenty-three Tales-what it means to be carried by a book. He explores the discovery that once accompanied finding books, and books finding us. He ponders the smell of an old volume, its heft, and why bibliophiles carry them around even without reading them. He demonstrates how and why there is magic and enchantment that takes place between people and books"-- [Provided by publisher]
- Table of Contents:
- The Martin Buber Book I Carried While My Marriage Failed
- Three Inches of Hitler in Very Small Hands
- A Means of Escape with My Side of the Mountain
- Forbidden Books for Ordinary Teenage Trauma
- In Search of Wendell Berry and a Life without Expectations
- Monica Furlong's Thomas Merton and How to Ruin a Honeymoon
- Finding Tagore in Harvard Square
- Tolstoy's Twenty-three Tales and Learning to Walk on Water
- Sitting with Swami and The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
- Hand-held Devotion (Books with Pictures)
- Sin and Mercy at Brighton Rock
- A Tiny Volume of What's Impossible
- Carrying Baron Corvo and My Own Petty Animus
- With Patience Like Spring and Thoreau's Journal
- Ghost Stories as Kids Go Off to College
- Black Elk Speaks and the Mystery of Religious Identity
- Montaigne's Essays and the Dependability of Change.
- Author/Creator:
- Sweeney, Jon M., 1967- , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Print version: My life in seventeen books [by Sweeney, J.M.] (Rhinebeck, New York : Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2024 — ISBN 9781958972311; LCCN 2023037430)
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- General Notes:
- Title from front cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2024). - Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Digital Characteristics:
- text file
- Call Numbers:
- Z1003.2 S96 2024eb
- ISBNs:
- 1958972320 (electronic book)
9781958972328 (electronic bk.)
9781958972311 (hardcover) [Invalid] - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2023037431
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1405905235