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Not Drowning, Reading
by Andrew Relph
Price $24.95 
- 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
- Categories
- Biography & Autobiography, Current Affairs, Culture & Social History
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 9781921696800
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- B+ Format (205 x 138mm)
- Pages
- 184
- Other Editions
- Sample Chapter
- NOT DROWNING READING sample chapter.pdf
- Media
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- Book Club Notes
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