false 44535292 1015254 4259 1932416595 9781932416596 141 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165403928m/4259.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165403928s/4259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4259.Housekeeping_vs_The_Dirt 3.88 881 The Polysyllabic Spree, critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby's dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.

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