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Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croat...

Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia /...

Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croat...

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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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Full title

Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.

Author / Creator

Publisher

[Normal., Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, c2003.

Uniform title

Zabranjeno čitanje. English.

Call Numbers

N070.5/80

Record Identifier

74Vveo0lxQR3

MMS ID

991017146279702626

Language

English

Croatian (Old Code)

(Language of original)

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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...

Publication information

Publisher

[Normal., Illinois] : Dalkey Archive Press, c2003.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

c2003.

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Scope and Contents

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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Full title

Thank you for not reading : essays on literary trivia / Dubravka Ugresic ; translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Originally published in Dutch as 'Verboden te lezen! (Breda, 2001)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c2003.

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N070.5/80

Record Identifier

74Vveo0lxQR3

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vveo0lxQR3

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ISBN

1564782980 (pbk) :

9781564782984 (pbk. :alk. paper) :

1564782980 (pbk. :alk. paper) :

9781564782984 (alk. paper)

1564782980 (alk. paper)

9781564782984 (pbk) :

DDC

070.5

MMS ID

991017146279702626

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