The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction

by Alan Jacobs

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In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way.
In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199747490

ISBN13:9780199747498

Release Date:May 2011

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.71 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"

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