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"BOOKS OF PASSAGE: 27 NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS ON THE BOOKS THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES".(PEOPLE & PLACES)
From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
Date: 19970604
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Available at the Greensboro Public Library is "Books of Passage: 27 North Carolina Writers on the Books that Changed Their Lives," edited by David Perkins.
This collection of essays brings to light the root of 27 North Carolina writers' beginnings. Each author tells how a certain piece of literature brought something to his or her life.
At age 15, Reynolds Price read Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and filled his young mind with 'steamy new knowledge.' While in college, Lee Smith happened upon James Still's "River of Earth," which moved her to tears. While in the ...
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