MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02827cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2013034092
003 DLC
005 20140524080844.0
008 131125s2014 nyu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013034092
020 $a9780374261207
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---$an-us-ny
050 00 $aZ1003.2$bR67 2014
082 00 $a028/.9$223
084 $aLIT007000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRose, Phyllis,$d1942-
245 14 $aThe shelf :$bfrom LEQ to LES /$cPhyllis Rose.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2014.
300 $a271 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could wish for--a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels abut a picaresque novel from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf--those texts that accompany us through life. 'Fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels,' she sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
600 10 $aRose, Phyllis,$d1942-$xBooks and reading.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$xBooks and reading.
650 0 $aReading interests$zUnited States.
650 0 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism.
610 20 $aNew York Society Library.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/207/9780374261207/image/lgcover.9780374261207.jpg