『No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy』のカバーアート

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

 プレビューの再生

Audibleプレミアムプラン30日間無料体験

プレミアムプランを無料で試す
オーディオブック・ポッドキャスト・オリジナル作品など数十万以上の対象作品が聴き放題。
オーディオブックをお得な会員価格で購入できます。
30日間の無料体験後は月額￥1500で自動更新します。いつでも退会できます。

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy

著者： Mark Hodkinson
ナレーター： Mark Hodkinson
プレミアムプランを無料で試す

30日間の無料体験後は月額￥1500で自動更新します。いつでも退会できます。

￥3,200 で購入

￥3,200 で購入

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale, but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' 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 schools (bad), music (good) and the people (some mad, a few sane), and pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors (some bad, mostly good) that led the way, and shaped his life. It's also about a family who just didn't see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who, in his own way, taught Mark the power of stories. In recounting his own life-long love affair with books, Mark also tells the story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades, starting with the wave of working-class writers in the 1950s and 60s, where he saw himself reflected in books for the first time. ジャーナリスト・編集者・出版者 単語・言語・文法 文化・地域 芸術・文学
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

批評家のレビュー

Mark Hodkinson is one of the great unsung heroes of literature, and here he tackles perhaps the last taboo in publishing: class. With verve, insight and perfectly-captured period detail, he reminds us that not only are books sacred objects that should be available to everyone, but also that working class voices remain more marginalised and underrepresented than ever. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy redresses this imbalance beautifully, and in a just world will kickstart a long-overdue working class literary renaissance (BENJAMIN MYERS)
Mark's journey into his own cocoon of books is a deeply personal tale but one with universal themes for all young lives shaped and transformed in some way by the written word . . . Thoughtful and engaging (MARK RADCLIFFE)
This is an impassioned hymn of praise and declaration of love for that complex cultural object, the book. Anyone who has ever read, written or published a book will find their heart's pages turning as they sink joyfully into these craftsman-built paragraphs (IAN McMILLAN)
Some kids grow up dreaming of fast cars and fancy clothes. Others just want books and records. If that was you, particularly if you grew up in a small northern town where people said the word "book" the way they said the word "voodoo", this is probably your story. Even if you didn't, chances are you'll love it (DAVID HEPWORTH)
Praise for Believe in the Sign: A deftly written, poignant and funny tale of the 1970s
Written with economy and elegance, self-deprecating but never self-pitying
Hodkinson has a light touch and a modest, self-effacing style which he deploys to discover comedy in the unlikeliest places
Clever, occasionally brutal and regularly amusing
まだレビューはありません