PAPERBACK

Heather Cass White's 'Books Promiscuously Read' is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, this book illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it.

ISBN: 9781250849106