Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croat...
Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croat...
Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.
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[Normal., Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, c2003.
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N070.5/80
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English
Croatian (Old Code)
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Physical Description
Physical content
ix., 221p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Contents
Los Torcedores -- Literary Dreams -- Book Proposal -- Agents and Scouts -- Low-Income Writer -- Long Live Socialist Realism! -- You Know a Craftsman by His Tools -- Bazaar -- Literature and Democracy -- Engineers of Human Souls -- The Writer as Literary Reference -- The Aura of Glamour -- Shares in...
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Publisher
[Normal., Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, c2003.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
c2003.
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Summary
"Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshel...
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Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.
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Originally published in Dutch as 'Verboden te lezen! (Breda, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2003.
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N070.5/80
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74Vveo0lxQR3
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1564782980 (pbk) :
9781564782984 (pbk. :alk. paper) :
1564782980 (pbk. :alk. paper) :
9781564782984 (alk. paper)
1564782980 (alk. paper)
9781564782984 (pbk) :
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070.5
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991017146279702626
