Bibliograph

Big reader, essays, Susan Olding

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Big reader, essays, Susan Olding

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Big reader

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Susan Olding

Sub title

essays

Summary

A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayists Ever since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind: through every experience, Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it means to be human, to be a woman--and to be a reader. Big Reader is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss, and the nuanced disappointments and joys of a reading life

Target audience

adult

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