Review
"I can't think of anyone better qualified, anyone with quite the same combination of pizzazz, technical knowhow and sheer enthusiasm." D.J. Taylor, Independent on Sunday"
Book Description
In a most original memoir John Sutherland looks at the books (and a few films, songs and other things) which have shaped his life - Wind in the Willows and Lady Chatterley, Room at the Top and Perry Como, the first Randy Turpin/Sugar Ray Robinson fight of 1951, On the Waterfront and Waiting for Godot...
Product Description
'Books, films, music and landscapes mean different things at different times of our lives. We consume them and, mysteriously, they define us at the moment of that consumption.' As he traces the random growth of an odd mind through time, John Sutherland's moments are moving, funny and sharply realised, offering insights we will all instantly recognise and share.
About the Author
John Sutherland is Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London and a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. He has published twenty books (including Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Great Puzzles in 19th Century Fiction) and writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He was chairman of the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
