No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy - Mark Hodkinson

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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Buch | Softcover
368 Seiten
2023 | Main
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-83885-001-2 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
This love letter to reading is a philosophical take on why we read and collect books, told through a working-class lens
Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles, at the last count.

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It's about the schools, the music, the people - but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. It's about a family who didn't see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who taught Mark the power of stories. It's also a story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades.

Mark Hodkinson has written for The Times for two decades, three years as a columnist. He has also contributed to the Observer, Guardian, Mail on Sunday and others. He is the author of Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, which is regularly cited as a football classic, and Believe in the Sign, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His novels include The Last Mad Surge of Youth, which was nominated as Q's Novel of the Year, and That Summer Feeling. He owns Pomona Books and has published titles by Simon Armitage, Barry Hines, Ian McMillan, Ray Gosling, Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) and many more. He also commissioned and edited the much-acclaimed biography J.D. Salinger: A Life, which was made into a film starring Nicholas Hoult. markhodkinson.com

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 246 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
ISBN-10 1-83885-001-5 / 1838850015
ISBN-13 978-1-83885-001-2 / 9781838850012
Zustand Neuware
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