The Resource The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose
The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose
Resource Information
The item The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Houston Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could wish for--a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels abut a picaresque novel from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf--those texts that accompany us through life. 'Fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels,' she sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Contents
-
- The experiment begins
- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time"
- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera"
- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman
- Women and fiction : a question of privilege
- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark
- Libraries : making space
- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas"
- Serial killers : detective fiction
- Immortality
- Isbn
- 9780374261207
- Label
- The shelf : from LEQ to LES
- Title
- The shelf
- Title remainder
- from LEQ to LES
- Statement of responsibility
- Phyllis Rose
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Phyllis Rose embarks on a grand literary experiment--to read her way through a random shelf of library books, LEQ-LES. Can you have an Extreme Adventure in a library? Phyllis Rose casts herself into the wilds of an Upper East Side lending library in an effort to do just that. Hoping to explore the "real ground of literature," she reads her way through a somewhat randomly chosen shelf of fiction, from LEQ to LES. The shelf has everything Rose could wish for--a classic she has not read, a remarkable variety of authors, and a range of literary styles. The early nineteenth-century Russian classic A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov is spine by spine with The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Stories of French Canadian farmers sit beside those about aristocratic Austrians. California detective novels abut a picaresque novel from the seventeenth century. There are several novels by a wonderful, funny, contemporary novelist who has turned to raising dogs because of the tepid response to her work. In The Shelf, Rose investigates the books on her shelf with exuberance, candor, and wit while pondering the many questions her experiment raises and measuring her discoveries against her own inner shelf--those texts that accompany us through life. 'Fairly sure that no one in the history of the world has read exactly this series of novels,' she sustains a sense of excitement as she creates a refreshingly original and generous portrait of the literary enterprise"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rose, Phyllis
- Dewey number
- 028/.9
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- Z1003.2
- LC item number
- R67 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Rose, Phyllis
- New York Society Library
- Books and reading
- Authors, American
- Reading interests
- Fiction
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
- Label
- The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time" -- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera" -- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman -- Women and fiction : a question of privilege -- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark -- Libraries : making space -- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas" -- Serial killers : detective fiction -- Immortality
- Control code
- ocn864808485
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374261207
- Lccn
- 2013034092
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)864808485
- (Sirsi) a1739579
- Label
- The shelf : from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The experiment begins -- The myth of the book : "A hero of our time" -- Literary evolution : "The phantom of the Opera" -- The universe provides : Rhoda Lerman -- Women and fiction : a question of privilege -- Small worlds : the nightingale and the lark -- Libraries : making space -- Life and adventures : "Gil Blas" -- Serial killers : detective fiction -- Immortality
- Control code
- ocn864808485
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9780374261207
- Lccn
- 2013034092
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)864808485
- (Sirsi) a1739579
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