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Not Drowning, Reading ebook
by Andrew Relph
- About the Book
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For the national year of reading, here is a book that, in Phillip Adams’s words, brings ‘a new perspective’ to the art of reading.
As a child, Relph had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst and professional conversationalist whose memoir explores why our relationships with authors and characters can be as vital as any we form in ‘real life’.
Robert Dessaix says this ‘conversation about literature’ is one that ‘few readers will be able to resist joining’. Brenda Walker calls it a ‘warm and profound book about the deep value of thoughtfulness, of loving and reading’.
‘Not Drowning, Reading is a psychological autobiography through books; an absorbing meditation on the ways authors, characters, and readers can interact.’ — Australian Book Review
- Category
- ebooks
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781921696817
- HB/PB
- Ebook
- Format
- Ebook
- Pages
- 184
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things