Ex Libris Booker Prize listening to jazz and opera

listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table

Enter a magical world where unicorns with rainbow manes gallop across the sky

battles are won and lost

It is a wonderful tribute to a remarkable life

Ex Libris Booker Prize listening to jazz and operaProduct Description Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humor and erudition she moves easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own