Autobibliography

Autobibliography
Rob Doyle
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Hardback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
28 Oct 2021 UK
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9781800750524
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In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across as painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol. In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books - from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich - as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading, and of a lifetime of books. Provocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.
Praise for Threshold:' Exhilarating and highly entertaining . . . colourful, scabrous, humorous and laced with arcane literary knowledge' - Sunday Times' The funniest novel I' ve read since January . . . unashamedly navel-gazing, slyly cosmopolitan and an absolute blast' - Daily Mail' Doyle' s storytelling is compelling and engaging, suffused with wit, honestyandemotional intelligence' - Irish Times' Extraordinary, quite unlike anything I' ve read before' - John Boyne
Rob Doyle was born in Dublin and holds a first-class honors degree in philosophy and an MPhil in psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of the story collection This Is the Ritual and the novels Threshold and Here Are the Young Men, also a forthcoming film for which he cowrote the screenplay. He is the editor of the anthology The Other Irish Tradition, published by Dalkey Archive Press.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781800750524
Published: 28 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Swift Press
Publisher: Swift Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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