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Butterflies, ice-cream, writing at night, playing word games...in this witty, intimate and delicious book Anne Fadiman ruminates on her passions, both literary and everyday. From mourning the demise of letter-writing to revealing a monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from Balzac's coffee addiction to making ice-cream from Liquid Nitrogen, she draws us into a world of hedonistic pleasures and literary delights. This is the perfect book for life's ardent obsessives.
The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.
| ISBN: | 9780141033990 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Pub date: | 06 Nov 2008 |
| DEWEY: | 814.54 |
| DEWEY edition: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 240 |
| Weight: | 148g |
| Height: | 180mm |
| Width: | 114mm |
| Spine width: | 16mm |
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