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Not Drowning, Reading
by
Andrew Relph
For the national year of reading, here is a book that, in Phillip Adams’s words, brings ‘a new perspective’ to the art of reading.
As a child, Relph had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst and professional conversationalist whose memoir explores why our relationships with authors and characters can be as vital as any we form in ‘real life’.
Robert Dessaix says th...more
As a child, Relph had a reading disability; now he is a psychoanalyst and professional conversationalist whose memoir explores why our relationships with authors and characters can be as vital as any we form in ‘real life’.
Robert Dessaix says th...more
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
February 1st 2012
by Fremantle Press
(first published January 2nd 2012)
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I have read several books lately about the power of reading: Reading By Moonlight: How Books Saved A Life, The Uncommon Reader and now Andrew Relph's series of reflections, Not Drowning, Reading. Literary allusions begin before even opening the first page, recalling Stevie Smith's poetry collection and Virginia Woolf's death. Virginia's own The Common Reader: First Series is referred to several times throughout.
Andrew Relph is a Perth-based psychotherapist and this slim book is one for for frequ...more
Andrew Relph is a Perth-based psychotherapist and this slim book is one for for frequ...more
An interesting insight into the connection between literature and experience, how real life relationships may be analogous to fictional ones. However, the author does tend towards obsession with literature to the point that it cannot be generalised to the reader.
I didn't quiet finish this one, not in the right frame of mind at the moment. I may finish it at a later date.
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Andrew Relph is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who lives and works in Perth. Not Drowning, Reading is his first book.
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