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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

By Mark Hodkinson

Book information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781786899989, 9781786899972, 1786899981
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
597 kB (611177 bytes)
Pages
303\0
Library
SoftArchive
Time added
2023-07-17 09:11:45

Description

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles, at the last count. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It’s about the schools, the music, the people – but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. It’s about a family who didn’t see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who taught Mark the power of stories. It’s also a story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades.

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