A Love of Reading, the Second Collection

Fourteen brilliant new reviews from the author of A Love of Reading *. Passionate, thought provoking, and witty.

A Love of Reading, the Second Collection* contains 14 new reviews of modern classics from a discriminating, highly entertaining, and prodigiously well-read guide.

In a stimulating selection, ranging from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth , and from Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain to Sheri Holman’s The Dress Lodger , popular literary critic Robert Adams skilfully interweaves a nimble and enlightening discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. Adams is repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of less-than-perfect humans making their way in a hostile world, and as a result his reviews are a hugely satisfying mix of rich pathos and abundant humour. In the words of the Calgary Herald , they are “a bibliophile’s dream.”

From the Hardcover edition.