The a life in books Nafisi, Azar creator author. Sis, Peter illustrator. text biography nyu New York Penguin Books c2014 2014 monographic eng

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338 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. "A passionate hymn to the power of fiction to change people's lives, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America. Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite American novels-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Babbitt, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, among others-she invites us to join her as citizens of her 'Republic of Imagination,' a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream."--Provided by the publisher Part I. Huck -- Part II. Babbitt -- Part III. Carson -- Epilogue. Adult Azar Nafisi ; illustrations by Peter Sis. Lauron, Rodello General Education General Education: Literature Text in English n-us--- Nafisi, Azar Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Lewis, Sinclair 1885-1951 McCullers, Carson 1917-1967 English teachers United States Biography Iranian American women Biography American fiction Appreciation United States Books and reading United States National characteristics in literature BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading 9780143127789 [paperback] 2014022287 ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780670026067.jpg ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780670026067.jpg DLC 140728 20251223091815.0 18244776 eng