Alone with a Book: On Reading, Writing, and Looking
Feb 2027 · Sold by Vintage
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A luminous essay collection about the pleasure of reading deeply and seeing our world reflected back at us in art.
"Hadley is a supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence, someone who goes well beyond surfaces."
For as long as Tessa Hadley can remember, life has been made vivid by reading. The touchstones of childhood were the thrilling pages of a Ladybird book, then the sailboats in Swallows and Amazons, then the rich and immersive The Secret Garden. Reading about life seemed to enhance the textures and sensations of living: the ordinary world, with its familiar furninshings and routines and small dramas, came into focus through the stories she loved.
In these lively and incisive essays, Hadley turns to the books and the art that have animated her life, and asks what it means to connect with one book over another. Ranging across the works of Jane Austen, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Alice Munro, Colm Tóibín, and Daniyal Mueenuddin, and others, Hadley returns to the enduring power of realism as a craft, a joy, and a way of relating to the world, where life is made richer, deeper, and more fully imagined through fiction.
"Hadley is a supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence, someone who goes well beyond surfaces."
For as long as Tessa Hadley can remember, life has been made vivid by reading. The touchstones of childhood were the thrilling pages of a Ladybird book, then the sailboats in Swallows and Amazons, then the rich and immersive The Secret Garden. Reading about life seemed to enhance the textures and sensations of living: the ordinary world, with its familiar furninshings and routines and small dramas, came into focus through the stories she loved.
In these lively and incisive essays, Hadley turns to the books and the art that have animated her life, and asks what it means to connect with one book over another. Ranging across the works of Jane Austen, Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Alice Munro, Colm Tóibín, and Daniyal Mueenuddin, and others, Hadley returns to the enduring power of realism as a craft, a joy, and a way of relating to the world, where life is made richer, deeper, and more fully imagined through fiction.
A luminous essay collection about the pleasure of reading deeply and seeing our world reflected back at us in art.
"Hadley is a supremely perceptive writer of formidable skill and intelligence, someone who goes well beyond surfaces."
For as long as Tessa Hadley can remember, life has been made ...
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TESSA HADLEY is the author of four collections of stories, eight novels, a novella, and an essay collection. She has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and was a finalist for the Story Prize. She contributes regularly to The New Yorker and reviews for The Guardian and the London Review of Books. She lives in Cardiff, Wales.
TESSA HADLEY is the author of four collections of stories, eight novels, a novella, and an essay collection. She has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, the Hawthornden Prize, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and was a finalist for the Story Prize. She contributes regularly to...
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