Packing my library : an elegy and ten digressions
Manguel, Alberto2018
Books, Manuscripts
In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000-volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal re-evaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries.
Main title:
Packing my library : an elegy and ten digressions / Alberto Manguel.
Author:
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780300219333 (hbk)
Dewey class:
028.9
LC class:
Z1003
Local class:
028.9
Language:
English
BRN:
2192239