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Penguin Book of Summer Stories
2007
First Published
3.38
Average Rating
384
Number of Pages
Selected and Introduced by Alberto Manguel Summer is the season for reading. Whether lying on the beach or curled up in a chair on the veranda, on a plane to faraway places or taking in the view from a hotel balcony, reading is the most decadent of summer activities. In The Penguin Book of Summer Stories, internationally acclaimed anthologist Alberto Manguel offers a wonderful collection of twenty brilliant stories set in the leisurely time of summer to enjoy and, at the same time, to follow other people’s mysterious lives or take part in someone else’s dramatic adventure. Margaret Atwood * Ray Bradbury * Italo Calvino * Albert Camus * Mohamed Choukri * Julio Cortazar * Anita Desai * Helen Garner * Isabel Huggan * Shimaki Kensaku * Bernard MacLaverty * Daphne du Maurier * Gabriel Garcia Márquez * Ludmila Petrushevskaya * Wallace Stegner * Graham Swift * Elizabeth Taylor * John Updike * Tennessee Williams * A.B. Yehoshua
Avg Rating
3.38
Number of Ratings
13
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Author

Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel
Author · 27 books

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.

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