Lost Classics Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-Read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission |
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| Editor:
| Ondaatje, Michael |
| Author:
| Redhill, Michael
Spalding, Esta
Spalding, Linda |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7475-6175-0 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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The editors of Brick magazine had the idea of celebrating the new century by asking their contributors for short essays about their favourite 'lost classics'- books they treasured and would love to pass on to friends, but that are, for all intents and purposes, forgotten. The next issue contained thirty-two such essays - pithy, witty, passionate, surprising - which led to the idea of soliciting more, and celebrating them again with a book. In
Lost Classics you will find...
More DescriptionThe editors of Brick magazine had the idea of celebrating the new century by asking their contributors for short essays about their favourite 'lost classics'- books they treasured and would love to pass on to friends, but that are, for all intents and purposes, forgotten. The next issue contained thirty-two such essays - pithy, witty, passionate, surprising - which led to the idea of soliciting more, and celebrating them again with a book.
In Lost Classics you will find Margaret Atwood on sex and death in the scandalous Dr Glas; John Irving on The Headmaster's Papers by Richard A Hawley; Edmund White on The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews; Helen Garner on the delightfully sinister Australian children's epic The Journey of the Stamp Animals; David Malouf on Stendahl's Life of Rossini; Jeffrey Eugenides on The Pilgrim Hawk by G. Westacott; and much more.