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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The founder and editor of The Threepenny Review describes the huge and strange world of Scandinavian crime and mystery fiction and travels overseas to discover the difference between the real countries and the versions she made up in her mind.--
"An in-depth and personal exploration of Scandinavian crime fiction as a way into Scandinavian culture at large"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in the country, The Threepenny Review, to describe a life lived in and through...
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