{"product_id":"autobibliography-hb-w93","title":"Rob Doyle: Autobibliography W93 [2021] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, enlightenment, the bliss of fascination. In a negative sense, it is a means of withdrawal, of inhabiting a reality quarantined from one that often comes across as painful, alarming or downright distasteful. In the former sense, reading is like food; in the latter, it is like drugs or alcohol.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAutobibliography\u003c\/em\u003e, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books - from the \u003cem\u003eDhammapada\u003c\/em\u003e and Marcus Aurelius, via \u003cem\u003eThe Tibetan Book of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich - as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading, and of a lifetime of books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, intelligent and funny, it is a brilliant introduction to a personal canon by one of the most original and exciting writers around. It is a book about books, a book about reading, and a book about a writer. It is an autobibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doyle, Rob","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42114674622649,"sku":"9781800750524","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/doyle-rob-rob-doyle-autobibliography-w93-2021-hardback-9781800750524-58800712581459.jpg?v=1727957291","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/autobibliography-hb-w93","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}