Books that Saved My Life by Michael McGirr
Books that Saved My Life by Michael McGirr
SKU: B9781925773149 • Barcode: 9781925773149

Books that Saved My Life

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  • Format: Hardback
  • Main subject: Literary studies: general
  • Genre / subject: Literary studies: general
  • Author: Michael McGirr
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Books that Saved My Life by Michael McGirr is a non-fiction book for adult readers.

A profound, funny and uplifting collection of reminiscences about a life in books Here are forty texts to read at some stage in your life: forty texts that can enrich you in all manner of ways. Some are recent, like Harry Potter; some ancient, like Homer and Lao Tzu. There are memoirs (Nelson Mandela), poetry (Les Murray) and many of the world's great novels, from George Eliot's Middlemarch to Toni Morrison's Beloved.

Our guide, in entertaining short essays about personal encounters with each of these works, is Michael Mc Girr: schoolteacher and former priest, reviewer of hundreds of novels and lifelong lover of literature. His humour and insight shine through in stories that connect the texts he has selected with each other, and connect us to them. Never prescriptive, and often very funny, this book is an invitation to reflect on-and share with others-the extraordinary gift of reading. 'The excitement has never worn off.

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